Pro tip: clean YouTube links. When you get a link from YT, it includes an ID tracking back to YOU. It's a "query string" on the end of the URL like this:

...?si=[tracker_ID_here]

This ID allows YouTube (and their owner, Google, and *their* owner, Alphabet, and ALL of their associates) to track the people who click on the link, and the apps they used, back to you, building a network of none-of-their-business.

Good news: DELETE the "?si=..." part & the link works just fine without the tracking.

@VisualStuart also, shout out to https://www.youtube-nocookie.com run by Google themselves. Has no front page, but can view videos without cookies. Edit: https://todon.nl/@fedor/113666723157998939
youtube-nocookie.com will still track user data - Writing - Dustin Whisman

So about how I thought that using youtube-nocookie.com instead of youtube.com in embeds would keep YouTube from tracking user data... Yeah, I was wrong about that.

@fedor @VisualStuart I thought it was unusually good willed of them- thanks for the link.