Ok, all you IT geeks, I have a question for you....whenever someone embeds a YouTube video into a post, does clicking on the thread show up has having visited YouTube? Apparently where I work, YouTube has gotten so popular that its eating up bandwidth space and slowing down the network. So the company did the only thing it could do...ban YouTube. But they didn't just block it like a p*rn or gambling site, they simply said "Don't go there anymore!" I can guarantee you that someone in IT has been told to monitor the number of hits on YouTube and point out the culprits. So if I click on a thread with a YouTube embedded video, am I showing up as having visited YouTube? I noticed today just how many threads have a video in them. If this is true, then it looks like I'm going to be staying away from the BBS at work...and I'm not sure I can do that.
my guess would be looking at the thread no, but clicking on the embedded vid would anyhoo, just want to say hey to yall
An embedded object is going to get a hit from viewing the thread just like an image inside an img tag would. The embedded Flash object does come to your browser, unlike a thread with just an < a href= > link to a youtube video. It want show as eating up bandwidth. I wouldn't worry about it. If you get called into the principal's office, just say that it is nearly impossible to read news sites on the web without running across embedded youtube objects. btw: hey back to Smeggy and Mrs. Smeggy and the little muffin in the oven.
if you want to be sure, get firefox, use the plugin that disables flash objects unless you click on them. Then none of them even load, so there's no doubt about it..
It is an embedded object FROM youtube. Whether youtube is touched when the page it is contained in loads, or when you click on it. Either way... YES Clutchfans is not hosting the video.
There's something fishy here- it sounds like your IT department might not be worth much salt if they don't (read: CAN'T) block youtube. And going from that, they probably just put the responsibility of computer policing on the management by just watching what you are doing on your computer. I doubt someone is logging what you guys are doing.
Oh, they can block it if they wish. We're talking about a global sized corporation with plenty of support. They say that there is the possibility of business related use for youtube, so they didn't block it. I know for a fact they track what sites we go to and how long we are on the internet. About once a year there's a crack down and one or two people will get busted for usage. I just don't want to be one those people next time.
