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		IshKebab on July 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable IMO YouTube embeds are a bad experience anyway, especially on mobile. Just put a poster image with a link to the actual YouTube video.

schiffern on July 7, 2024 | [–]

If your mobile browser can run userscripts I threw something together to rewrite Youtube embeds into links.

Using the preview sounded cool so I added it. Change SHOW_PREVIEW_IMAGE to true.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40898049

mrkramer on July 7, 2024 | [–]

On mobile you can tap "Watch on YouTube" and it will deep link and open the video inside your YouTube mobile app.

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