Yeah makes sense for YouTube, Rif used to do it but tbh it was of questionable value as the player was very barebones.
YouTube at least opens quickly in its own app.
I guess there's not actually that many direct video links posted on Lemmy, I found one that did work, that player works nicely!
Is the detection based on extension or content-type or something?
Maybe the feature request is actually to extract inline video from well known hosts like Imgur?
E.g. https://lemm.ee/post/587389
The other obvious one is redgifs, I'm sure you can find an example of that yourself though 👀
Would love to see in-app video support.
So when a post links to an Imgur/YouTube/whatever video it gets opened in a native player rather than opening in a chrome webview thing
In the long long ago it was reasonably common (particularly on corporate or school/uni networks) to force all web traffic outbound from browsers through a proxy.
They'd then use these proxies to enforce policies (block sites basically) and often cache stuff too, important when internet connections sucked.
So generally proxies sit on the same network as the clients (browsers).
Reverse proxies sit on the same network as the servers.
Nice!