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Great point. It is using cloudflare stream.

Open to any recomendations for alternative as i too am quite displeased with the state of such things. But still prefer it to YouTube.

I believe the media server is set to reqire referer to prevent embeding on alternative origins.

Seems to be https://developers.cloudflare.com/stream/viewing-videos/secu.... Probably can be disabled and replaced with short-lived signed tokens. Though perhaps CloudFlare could have used [more modern iframe restrictions][1].