Musings of a Chicagoan

Someone can probably write a Greasemonkey script around this and get a fair amount of geek worship because of it — I have no idea how to go about programming it myself, however.

The purpose of the script is to get around YouTube behavior of autoplaying videos upon loading the page.

You could probably do this by intercepting the call for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[code] and replacing it with http://www.youtube.com/verify_age?next_url=/watch%3Fv%3D[code].

This places the age verification screen before any video, even one that wasn’t actually flagged.

The only thing is that the script would have to be smart enough not to interfere with itself when the user clicked on the ‘Confirm’ button on the age verification screen.

A corollary could be that it could make sure that no one else’s embedded YouTube would autoplay, by stripping the “&autoplay=1” out of any embedded YouTube videos, as more fully detailed here

If anyone does write this up, lemme know, eh?

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