I was trying to share a Youtube link and wanted the person to just see that clip without any of the irrelevant suggestions that pop up next to it. I knew that adding ?rel=0 (or &rel=0) at the end of the URL used to achieve this, but this doesn't seem to be working anymore. After googling a bit, I found suggestions to use the youtu.be domain instead of youtube.com, but suggestions were shown nonetheless, or the URL gave an error. How else can I share this link and have no 'related' clips shown on the side? Thanks!

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rel=0 is used to disable related videos shown at the end of a video, not to remove the suggested videos in the sidebars.

You can use the embed URL to access the video on it's own - . Add ?rel=0 to disable the related videos at the end too.

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Note, that rel=0 no longer works if you are signed into your Google account (YouTube, Gmail, etc).

&rel=0 only works when not signed in. However, you can get around this by using the enhanced privacy mode:

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As of August 23, 2018,

• The behavior for the rel parameter is changing on or after September 25, 2018. The effect of the change is that you will not be able to disable related videos. However, you will have the option of specifying that the related videos shown in the player should be from the same channel as the video that was just played.

To be more specific:

• Prior to the change, if the parameter's value is set to 0, then the player does not show related videos.
• After the change, if the rel parameter is set to 0, the player will show related videos that are from the same channel as the video that was just played.