Add a play button and GDPR hint to splash images

[leofeyer]

Is there a specific reason why by default there is no play icon as an overlay over splash images? From a usability point of view I don't find the current solution very user friendly. I've stumbled upon a view examples where I didn't recognize a video as such because it was "disguised" as a "regular" image. IMHO, a play icon should therefore be included as an overlay by default.

Originally posted by @madmaharaja in #300 (comment)

[aschempp]

FYI there have been multiple comments to that in #300, here's the initial one by @ausi which I fully agree with

I think the play icon should be part of the CSS of your website as it would most probably be styled differently by every website.

if we include something, it should be a style sheet similar to the icons CSS that you can individually select in the layout. That would not affect existing sites. But I don't really see the point for like 5 likes of CSS that 5% of websites will use 🤷

[leofeyer]

It does not hurt either, does it? Also, it is probably more about the text overlay (click to play … your IP address will be sent to YouTube) than the icon.

[aschempp]

It does not hurt either, does it?

Not sure what you're referring to?

[kroerig]

I would prefer having a simple default play button and a hint for GDPR. Maybe the last one should be configurable in the settings because it's content may differ from platform to platform.