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by n1xis10t 19 days ago
Yeah that’s pretty weird. I thought that maybe it was websites getting hacked and then redirecting to malicious stuff, but then I did your recommended search and it all seems very benign, and the videos seem to match the page title and urls. So I thought maybe it was some service that people use to redirect to youtube but have their own link instead of a youtu.be link, but a search for "hook global" "youtube" "redirect" doesn’t appear to reveal what this is, it just shows more examples of the weirdness. Including pages that are apparently just from youtube. Maybe if you turn off redirection in your browser and then take a look at the source for the html page that redirects you, it’ll give a clue. I can’t right now (on mobile) but I can probably try later.
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I don't think there is any content. When you try and view the page, it seems to send:

301 Moved Permanently Location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj6caVbtM_g&t=2s