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When using safari on my iPad denied access to YouTube on FB.

I get this message on my Facebook news feed when someone posts a YouTube video. Don't know why. It's worked fine for years. I am using Safari on my iPad. If I use the Facebook app it works fine. Any thoughts.

Thanks,

Dave


Access Denied


You don't have permission to access "http://fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net/embed/?" on this server.

Reference #18.3555facd.1362007289.6945153f

iPad 2, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Feb 27, 2013 4:54 PM

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Mar 1, 2013 4:22 AM in response to Helcaraxe

You can try letting apple know

http://www.apple.com/feedback/


but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a fix. If it is something within safari then it'd take an iOS update to fix that, and I personally can't see them cranking one out just for facebook users. I understand that the facebook app works, the m.facebook.com site works and it's possible that other facebook apps and other browsers may work.


A fix may come but I don't see it coming in the immediate future, so if it bugs folks they would be well served to find a work around until it gets resolved.


Something is wrong in the coding of facebook or youtube or safari (although considering safari hasn't been changed in a bit my bet is on youtube or facebook, probably youtube since their interface has been undergoing changes for the past few months) and it's up to the person that messed up the code to fix it.

Mar 3, 2013 6:27 PM in response to 98vulcan

I tried going to the m.facebook like someone mentioned and it gets rid of the access denied. !! :) :)I never had the problem before last week on my iPad 2. I thought it was some kind of virus or spam. Thanks for the help it was bugging me and I cleared cookies, went on some ? sights. That didn't help. It doesn't show up on my iPhone just ipad2. I am using safari and try to log in from just the facebook log in. It happens when I try to go from facebook app. too. Now I 'm just happy to get around the problem even though I don't know how to fix it from app or log in.

When using safari on my iPad denied access to YouTube on FB.

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