How to play YouTube video's without ads

If you have a link to a YouTube video such as:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaeDtNw32EA

There a couple of tricks that you can use to play this video without advertising.

1) - Modify the above URL to add a "hyphen" between the T and U to make it as follows:

https://www.yout-ube.com/watch?v=YaeDtNw32EA

This will throw you to an alternate YouTube,com URL as follows:

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/YaeDtNw32EA

2) - Edit the original UTL to the above URL as shown. Specifically, do a search and replace on "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" and replace with "https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/"

Note: These work as of 01/07/2023.

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