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24 alternatives to Volcano | Co-watch YouTube videos just by adding –-- to the URL

Just follow the super easy steps below to try it right away: 1. Open any youtube video and play it in the browser. 2. Edit the youtube.com video URL to you---tube.com (adding three hyphens between "you" and "tube" in the address bar) 3. Enter and Done, Share the URL with others for them to join or live-stream your co-watching stream. (private and visible only to people with the URL you share) Example: Modify https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX2qFMC8cFo to https://www.you---tube.com/watch?v=eX2qFMC8cFo and press enter in the address bar. Voila!

Volcano enables synchronized group watching of YouTube videos by redirecting modified URLs through a co-viewing service. Users change "youtube.com" to "you---tube.com" in any video link, then share the resulting URL… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Volcano | Co-watch YouTube videos just by adding –-- to the URL launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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