I'd like to complement this comment and suggest that this practice should be applied to links that may be blocked to a grand part of us, people that are behind a firewall.

There are also accessibility reasons for not being able to watch a video. Let alone dedicating the time to it.

There are also those that have limited bandwidth available, or very expensive bandwidth, where a video is a luxury.

Tried proxies ? I don't often use them but some rare times they're helpful https://www.proxfree.com/youtube-proxy.php

https://tx.proxfree.com/permalink.php?url=s54aaHA%2FaGsaD5vH...

Bonus : html player by default

Here - I created an SRT Closed Caption file for you:

http://keepsubs.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwat...