Let’s say your internet research takes you to a video on YouTube with an age restriction. You want to watch it (you know—for research purposes) but don’t remember your YouTube login information, or want to go through the hassle of typing a few more things in. Fortunately, there are two little URL tricks to help with that.













If you remove the watch?v= and replace with embed/ , you’ll get a link that goes directly to the video without the rest of the YouTube site, and it’ll play full-width in your browser. So, for example, you would take this link:

youtube.com/watch?v=6LZM3_wp2ps

and change it to this:

youtube.com/embed/6LZM3_wp2ps

And you won’t have to log in. Alternatively, you can add nsfw before the youtube.com portion of the link:

nsfwyoutube.com/watch?v=6LZM3_wp2ps

This will take you to a different site to play the video, but it’s a bit faster to type in.