YouTube Without Everything Else

You’ve found a good YouTube video to share with your students but you’re concerned about the distractions with ads, comments, and suggestive videos that follow. Here is a technique that will give you the video and only the video.

  1. Go to the YouTube video.
  2. Take the URL of the video from the URL address bar at the top (not from the share link below the video).
  3. Add a hyphen in the word youtube.

See for yourself that it really works. Here’s an example.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZzPLdAWKOE

www.yout-ube.com/watch?v=SZzPLdAWKOE