[YouTube-API] Discussion about "click to pause" functionality

Hello,

 

I've been working to implement YouTube functionality on my site via AS3. I have thus far enjoyed using the API. It's fast, it's robust in many ways, and it tends to work with very little need to coerce it. That is, until I come to install player controls for the chromeless player.

 

A basic function, that many are familiar with, appreciate, and find to be intuitive; is the "click to pause" function. I thought this would be relatively simple to get going. Add a listener for CLICK, pause/play the video. Not so much. While this did work, it also encompasses any ads displayed in the player. Well, like most any dev would, I meddled around with the player until I was able to achieve the desired outcome. But, I needed to be sure I wasn't in violation of anything, so I came to check the knowledge base and forums on the matter.

 

I came across a few threads posted a year or so ago on roughly the same topic. I came across a post from Jeff Posnick:

"Please don't attempt to gain access to the ads container or
manipulate ads that are shown in any way. I understand the desire to
achieve click to pause behavior for your player, and the fact that
you've asked in the past for a way to interact with/be notified about
ad events in a programmatic manner, but that doesn't change the fact
that what you're attempting to do is not supported.

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team"

 

If the simple act of gaining access to the ads container isn't supported, is it then "wrong" for us to force access ourselves? It seems that gaining access to the ad container in a brute force manner might be against the TOS, and this bothers me. For what reason are we disallowed to implement proper click to pause behavior? The only reason I am accessing the ad container is not to manipulate it in any way, but to simply prevent an event listener from being added to it.

 

Is this not allowed? Is this against the TOS?

 

I do not want to violate any terms, but I am very confused on this topic. It's hard for someone to be creative with the API (as the devs have expressed they wished to see) when something as simple as this is not supported.

 

I don't mind YouTube ads showing up. I know they need to show ads, just as we do. I would just like to place my event listeners onto the player explicitly, not onto the ads that will be shown.

 

~Joshua Alltop

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