From what I've researched, it's not possible to disable title and a some other features: be it using URL parameters or CSS+JS.
Although, I've come with a solution that has a lot of potential: not only for user's privacy, but also for UX. This solution is:
- figuring out a way to extract YouTube videos source URL;
- using extracted URL in
<video>
or <iframe>
;
- replicate YouTube player styles.
For the first part, I've used Invidious API. But I think you can also create an API that uses youtube-dl
to extract videos URL (?).
In my tests, I didn't even had to install my own isntance of Invidious: I've used public API endpoints:
https://yewtu.be/latest_version?id=dasdsa312&itag=84
Where:
- id: video ID;
- itag: video stream format code.
Then, I made JavaScript code to:
- dynamically get all available Invidious public instances;
- generate a video element with sources to many different video quality and available instances.
These sources are generated depending on the query parameters available in my website URL:
https://riservato-xyz.frama.io/watch/?v=gprAWYQ47uY
With that in mind, whenever I need a customized YouTube player, I can use my own website to embed YouTube videos.
I understand the testing website (former url) is slow, indeed. Although, this is because I'm not using my own Invidious instance and rely on public instance. BUT IT WORKS!
<iframe width="560"
height="315"
src="https://riservato-xyz.frama.io/watch/?v=W_xIBfrdxQU" frameborder="0"></iframe>