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LeoZ 2026-05-25 12:53:01 ET Instead of fully focusing on cleaning, I finally configured irssi to autojoin servers and channels and now I'm back on irc. It's running off somebody else's shell server so I can mosh into it from my phone while I'm on the train and stuff. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/O2rGTXHvPCQ

turboskanker 2026-05-25 14:20:27 ET well thanks for showing me a way to just link to youtube videos on their own again after all these years of Google™ having long since killed the ability to just do it by linking to youtube.com/v/whateverthefuckhere

LeoZ 2026-05-26 12:07:21 ET It's more like youtube.com/watch?v= I just figured I'd use the weird -nocookies domain that they offer for embeds since I only found out about it while copying the link over

turboskanker 2026-05-26 13:45:25 ET oh i think you maybe partially misunderstood - i understand that the standard URL for youtube videos has always been "youtube.com/watch?v=whateverthefuck" yeah but that links to the full youtube page with the whole youtube UI / comments section / etc. etc. etc. - you used to be able to just solely link to the video in a browser window withut any of the rest of the youtube UI showing up by changing the url to youtube.com/v/whateverthefuck but google changed this years ago now so both options just link to the full page. wasn't even aware of youtube-nocookie.com til you made this post, or the fact that this also just links to only the video independent of the full youtube website - which you used to be able to do with the youtube.com/v/videoID option but you can't anymore. anyway, yeah, good to know either way. kinda surprised that's actually an official option from google/youtube and not some 3rd party embed site, since it seems like google is so perpetually hell-bent on constantly shoving cookies and datamining and UI clusterfuck down everyone's throats whether we want it or not. but hey whatever i'll take it i guess.

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