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Hello, I’m Michael Sliwinski, founder of Nozbe - to-do app for business owners and their teams. I write essays, books, work on projects and I podcast for you using #iPadOnly in #NoOffice as I believe that work is not a place you go to, it’s a thing you do.

Xoutu.be redirects to this page.

Cookie-free YouTube watcher


To watch any video, paste a YouTube link. Works with youtube.com, m.youtube.com, youtu.be or just the bare unique YouTube video ID.

Share any YouTube video on iOS easily

Get the “Cookie-free YouTube” Shortcut for iOS

This iOS/Mac Shortcut helps you to “share” any YouTube link to this page.

Bonus 1: Just add a URL as a parameter

This page has a special yt parameter, so add the YouTube link at the end of it or the 11-character YouTube video ID:

https://michael.team/yt/?yt=FULLYOUTUBELINK

Bonus 2: Change YOUTU.BE to XOUTU.BE

That’s right. I bought a domain xoutu.be which redirects to here. So if you’ve got a short video URL, you can just switch y for x and you’re done!

Change:
youtu.be/VIDEOID
To:
xoutu.be/VIDEOID

I hope Google will not sue me for ordering a similar domain. It’s for a good cause!

Why this page?

I created this because the experience of watching video on YouTube got worse. They show pop-ups, they track you and they tempt you to bindge-watch by suggesting lots of videos on the side.

This page solves most of these problems. It lets you embed any YouTube video (that has not been disabled for embedding) and watch it without being tracked (it uses the nocookie parameter), with full screen and picture-in-picture support on iPads. As a bonus, it somehow skips most YouTube ads, even though it wasn’t the main point of it.

Read more about this page and share with your friends! Thanks!