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Life & fun · August 2, 2021

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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 | Co-watch YouTube videos just by adding –-- to the URL launched on August 2, 2021 with 48 votes, #1,093 of 2,953 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

In plain words

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 with others to watch together in real-time. The streams are private and accessible only to people who receive the shared link, making it useful for friends or groups who want to watch videos simultaneously while seeing each other's presence online.

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