YouTube Embed Redirect by butterboat
Redirects YouTube watch/shorts pages to the privacy-friendly embed player and injects a Referer header so the embed loads without error 152/153.
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About this extension
YouTube Embed Redirect sends YouTube watch and Shorts links straight to the privacy-friendly youtube-nocookie.com embed player, so you watch without the cluttered, tracking-heavy watch page.
Features:
• Auto-redirects youtube.com/watch and /shorts to the embed player
• Injects a Referer header so embeds load correctly (no error 152/153), including videos embedded on other sites
• Preserves timestamps (?t=)
• Privacy Mode toggle — switch between youtube-nocookie.com and youtube.com
• Click a video's title or the YouTube logo in the player to open its comments & likes page with the video player fully blocked — comment and like without loading the tracking player
• Enable/disable any time from the toolbar popup
Features:
• Auto-redirects youtube.com/watch and /shorts to the embed player
• Injects a Referer header so embeds load correctly (no error 152/153), including videos embedded on other sites
• Preserves timestamps (?t=)
• Privacy Mode toggle — switch between youtube-nocookie.com and youtube.com
• Click a video's title or the YouTube logo in the player to open its comments & likes page with the video player fully blocked — comment and like without loading the tracking player
• Enable/disable any time from the toolbar popup
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Permissions and data
Required permissions:
- Access your data for www.youtube-nocookie.com
- Access your data for www.youtube.com
Optional permissions:
- Access your data for all websites
Data collection:
- The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.
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- Version
- 1.0.0
- Size
- 15.76 KB
- Last updated
- 4 days ago (Jun 18, 2026)
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- License
- MIT License
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