@danjmcs
If it's not too much to ask, here's a youtube filter (stops tracking from Mastodon and filters adverts to 0)
So your link is same video link but uses yewtu.be/ filtering...
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=wo2V1cSVj-w
(just change next link with different video ID after the v=
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=[Video ID]
and browse videos in exact same way without tracking here: