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[Oddysey]

Dave;

I have to admit that I've made a "slight" error..... I have a filter, always enabled, that rewrites YouTube links on the fly - as they come in from whatever server. That includes this very site, so when I said earlier that you were doing the same thing 'before' and 'after', that was my error, not yours. Humble apologies and all that.

That said, what I've done for some time is to replace the embed code, usually found in Iframes (though not always, but usually), with a standard YT link, allowing me to keep from loading Iframes in the first place, just as Scott intended with his original default filter set. I still get to see the author's intended video, but now it's in a separate window (browser session), and that's how I like it.

As to the "standard" embed code, that now redirects to youtube.googleapis.com/etc, etc. In your case, I'd suspect that you might have googleapis.com blocked, as I do. And not just in the AdList file, but also in the Hosts file. (And in my case, in my router, where I have to store last-ditch efforts to eradicate certain sites that just won't stay dead.)

Sadly, my name isn't Doc, so I can't tell you what's up!

HTH





Oddysey