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Here’s a direct link to the video so you don’t have to endure the hostility of their website: https://youtu.be/SEejivHRIbE

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Try direct link instead of YouTube. Its also there in comment below.

https://pmdvod.nationalgeographic.com/NG_Video/772/995/14428...

And youtube-dl to avoid the hostility of the Youtube website:

    youtube-dl https://youtu.be/SEejivHRIbE

You’re very likely getting an upvote from everyone who visited the link and came back here. Thank you.

Guilty.

I dealt with the page for as long as I could, scrolled, saw no video and came back here for someone to surely give the direct link. I think someone has trained me, but for what purpose I am not sure.

The image at the top is actually a video. It fooled me, too.

I literally couldn't find the video link at all on the article in mobile. Thank you.

It's the picture at the top that is the video, took a while for me to load.

What's wrong with the website?

It took almost 10 seconds to load on my gigabit connection, then a banner came up over the play button before finally a pop up forcing me to give my email to continue. At that point I X’d out and came here.

I got none of that and it loaded very quickly, presumably thanks to uBlock.

+1 and with noscript

I got none of that without uBlock or noscript, thanks to pointing my router to ad-blocking DNS servers.

I spent couple days after joining an Ad tech project, because I could not get a working local build.

I had already disabled adblocker at the time, and was even using other browsers. Turned out i also had DNS[0] ad blockers I forgot about.

This story always make me think the kinda of experience we are building for our own families and children online. sigh.

[0] https://someonewhocares.org/

Wow. I guess uBlock does it's magic for me.

no idea what the website was doing in the background, but the fan on my computer started working extra hard

I thought it was just me. Thanks!

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