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YouTube embed video tracking - console error

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December 8, 2022
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We've implemented YouTube embed video tracking, some embed videos are throwing us the following error.

Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/viewthroughconversion/something' (redirected from 'https://www.youtube.com/pagead/viewthroughconversion/something') from origin 'https://www.youtube.com' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.

Kindly help us to sort out this console error. Thank You.

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yuhuisg

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Check that your youtube.com URL has the "origin" parameter: https://developers.google.com/youtube/iframe_api_reference#Loading_a_Video_Player

If it does, then I believe you can safely ignore this error. Your video tracking should still work properly.

Sathya_MurugaiyanAuthor

Thank you. I can't ignore this error because tracking is not working if this error is thrown. My URL has an origin parameter. Video tracking functions work properly if the origin parameter is missing from the URL. This error is thrown and tracking is not working if the origin parameter is provided.

Is it possible to track the video using the origin parameter?

Sathya_MurugaiyanAuthor

Alright.

I wonder why your tracking fails when the "origin" parameter is present. In all of my tests and even with my client sites, I can track normally when the YouTube URL contains the "origin" parameter. So I'm not able to replicate your problem.

Thank you

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