As of April 2026, Embed Privacy is a WordPress oembed plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 26 reviews. It has been downloaded 533K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.9+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are up 6% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: Embed PDF Viewer.
4.9/526 reviews
10K+active installs
100%resolved
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
Content embedded from external sites such as YouTube or Twitter is loaded immediately when visitors access your site. Embed Privacy addresses this issue and prevents the loading of these contents until the visitor decides to allow loading of external content.
But Embed Privacy not only protects your visitor’s privacy but also makes your site load faster.
All embeds will be replaced by placeholders, ready for you to apply style as you wish. With only a couple of lines of CSS.
By clicking on the placeholder the respective content will then be loaded.
Note: This plugins requires the PHP extension “Document Object Model” (php-dom).
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Fantastic
by MTC·9 months ago
Just what the doctor ordered! Absolute must-have plugin for GDPR-compliant embedding of external media (in my case YT Videos)
AMAZING
by visualworker002·1 year ago
Embed Privacy is an absolute game-changer for anyone who wants to embed vimeo videos without compromising user privacy!
simple and easy BUT with bugs
by wotography·1 year ago·1 reply
cool plugin, apreciate it!
unfortunately on a page where I embed several videos from different video pattforms (eg. YouTube & Vimeo) once I click to accept one, it always load all the videos from all the plattforms. Even if I dont choose to accept all the YouTube ones it loads them anyway once I click on any video to be loaded.
- This topic was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by wotography.
Just what I was looking for!
by Chris Lovie-Tyler·1 year ago·2 replies
It’s annoying that this plugin even has to exist (to prevent, for example, Google from tracking people before they’ve even viewed a YouTube video), but, in the world of GDPR, it’s necessary. And I’m thankful for it.
There are just a couple of things I think could be improved:
- The default text “Click here to display content from X” isn’t as clear as it could be for an opt in. I think it should be something like, “Click here to accept X tracking and view content”. That’s what I’ve customised it to be.
- The “Disable X” checkbox that can be inserted into a privacy policy via a shortcode is pre-selected. To me, this is confusing. I wonder whether it would be better as a toggle–or, when you click it, to briefly show the checkbox selected and then change to “Enable X”. I also think the language could be clearer: “Opt out of X tracking on this site”, or something like that.
Other than that, great, simple plugin. Thanks for making it!
- This topic was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by Chris Lovie-Tyler.
Tolles Plugin!
by rehatiere007·1 year ago
Funktioniert super mit dem Einbettungscode von FB und Instagram.
Download Trends
Today: 101Yesterday: 115This week: 684Period total: 177K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.9+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.12
87.4%
v1.11
7.7%
Other
4.9%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.12.3
- Fixed: Saving embed fields for embed providers was not successful
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