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I dunno dude. I can't seem to play anything on slate. ghostery blocks it. So I disable ghostery and the video element loads. I click play and the video does not play.

YouTube works fine with ghostery.

I want to watch shit online without people watching me. I don't think that's unreasonable. Lots of sites try to make it really fucking hard, though.

/end rant

If sites embedding video would simply post links to the YouTube content, that would help markedly.

I had the same problem FWIW: absolutely nothing on Slate's page evidenced that there was video let alone where it was hosted. Thanks HN for pointing out the sources.

I use disconnect.me which is similar to ghostery, doesn't have that problem.

No risk of losing traffic to youtube and branding.

Unfortunately, it had the exact opposite effect.

ad revenue back to Slate as opposed to Youtube?

Is the ad revenue share from youtube < self hosted ad revenue - cost of hosting video and streaming it. Honestly do not know. But seems unlikely.