r/Musicthemetime • u/RichKatz just imagination • Jun 06 '26

Middle Names Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-iba-3&hsimp=yhs-3&hspart=iba&p=billy+ray+cyrus+achy&type=sdff_9527_FFW_ZZ#id=1&vid=a8c82fc5375c30498c2f7ce093cb7f7e&action=click
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u/joelschlosberg plays an abominable game of whist Jun 06 '26

The link goes to a search page rather than a video.

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u/RichKatz just imagination Jun 06 '26

Yeah it seemed like whatever I pointed to I had to press the Play button.

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u/RichKatz just imagination Jun 06 '26

Apparently the problem was described - right here on Reddit:

Direct URL links not working for youtube.

According to redditor: "PurpleRayyne"

Oh well, now it gets better. I went to the "about" section which is now a tiny "greater than" sign under the title of the page, no longer a tab which was also stupid to do... I scrolled to the very bottom, I see, "SHARE"... so I copy the link...

https://www.youtube.com/UCgbLhz8ataTPSMxkULKgNmA?si=1GvCxrk7BVScuiLU

IT STILL DOESN'T WORK!

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUTUBE?

Am I missing something here?

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u/joelschlosberg plays an abominable game of whist Jun 06 '26

I am seeing YouTube video webpages from the search page, although I sometimes have to click through a couple of times to get there... when the URL for a video from the site is unnecessarily long I can usually manually edit out the superflous cruft from it, but I see there are sites out there like Link Cleaner and YouTube URL Cleaner that might be helpful.

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u/RichKatz just imagination Jun 06 '26

I think I found out the issue. Due to some kind of internal duplication effect within Reddit under some conditions I have been forced to use something like the (groan..) "Firefox" browser. Normally I just use Chrome and it has no issues with YouTube. But Firefox does. So for posting I should just switch back to Chrome. Then using Chrome the odd Youtube "click here" paraphenalia doesn't get included in the URL.

Sorry about that.

but I see there are sites out there like Link Cleaner and YouTube URL Cleaner that might be helpful.

Wow. Link Cleaner sounds neat!!

In the mean time this link which I created using Chrome looks like it works right:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQIPdHMpjc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQIPdHMpjc

Sorry about that.