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Helix is no longer serving their affiliate tool embeds…
One of my sites, has 632 of these now broken embeds listed >.>
Oddly, the posters for the embeds still resolve.
Those pages with the broken videos are still getting traffic so I’m mixed on what to do about it. What would you do or have done about that sort of chicanery?
Actually, just found their new embeds (though pretty much hidden in NATS) and the URLs to the videos aren’t logical/easy changes to the old ones. Did anyone find a work around for updating video URLs?
This is why I host my tube videos even when there’s a hosted version available. Been there, done that… Back in the day I was doing using hosted images on my blogs and after some sponsors changed the URLs 2+ times (or discontinued them completely), I learned my lesson. I’ll still use hosted videos on pages where it’s not the primary content, that way the page can simply degrade and drop the video when the hosted URLs stop working.
Point being, when you finally get the new URLs sorted out, pull them onto your own server and serve them from there (or at least have them there as a backup).
Good advice, I’ve done that with smaller sites but on sites that serve thousands of videos I’ve been reluctant to save that much onto the dedicated servers hard drives.
So many programs are just dropping the ball these days, especially older sponsors. Many still update their sites, just not the affiliate platforms.
I have a similar issue with deep linking to scenes. I have so many that have stopped working when sites were swallowed up by bigger programs. I’m just holding my breath to see if MEN.com’s are going to continue working after we have to move over to their custom set-up.
