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manuelpira
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Reputation: 13

How can I remove the download button on facebook video previews on Chrome?

Using Chrome browser, when I share a link from my website on facebook, the 'preview' is a video in mp4 format i.e not swf format. The problem is that a download button is showing up on the video player on facebook.

Based on this post I was able to remove the download button on my website using controlsList="nodownload" attribute, but I still can't remove it from facebook posts.

As far as I know, this video preview is built based just OG metatags, which I believe are correct:

<meta property="og:video:url" content="https://cdn.domain.com/path/to/video/file.mp4" />
<meta property="og:video:secure_url" content="https://cdn.domain.com/path/to/video/file.mp4" />
<meta property="og:video:width" content="768" />
<meta property="og:video:height" content="432" />
<meta property="og:video:type" content="video/mp4" />

Question: Is there anything I can do to fix this or does it depends 100% on facebook?

Note: Due to privacy policies I can't share here an example but here is an example with similar OG metatags, post it on your facebook timeline and you'll see the download button as shown in this screenshot example below : https://i.sstatic.net/mck0N.png

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 520

Answers (1)

user149341
user149341

Reputation:

Question: Is there anything I can do to fix this or does it depends 100% on facebook?

This is entirely on Facebook's end.

You've provided Facebook with the URL to your video content. How they present it is up to them.

Upvotes: 1

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