However, you can easily share a YouTube video link without sidebar, ads, and comments by just modifying the video URL. A normal YouTube video link looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfJuigJebRg (video on Android event) You can modify the URL by inserting ‘_popup’ after the ‘watch’ as shown below. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=RfJuigJebRg This trick is very useful when you creating links on educational materials to YouTube videos. (via)