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by skipants 2102 days ago
I had to implement something similar to this a few years ago. I scoured the ToS to make sure I wasn't doing anything wrong by removing the GUI. IIRC it was totally fine as long as you still link to the youtube video.

As for ads -- I don't remember how we dealt with those. I don't think embeds show the pre-roll ads, only mid-video ads. Since this is a streaming video I assume it doesn't have those.
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TekMol 2102 days ago
How did you remove the GUI?
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skipants 2101 days ago
We used the Youtube API to load the video -- I think their was multiple things we did but you can specifically request no controls be shown: https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters#cont...

I was going to link the site I used it on, but it looks like since I worked there they switched to Youtube's controls rather than the custom ones I implemented; not sure why.

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