Just curious if other people are seeing this or if I'm part of an a/b test. When people embed a YouTube video on their page, you can (often? always?) click on the lower-left of the video to open the video on the YouTube page (instead of the page it was embedded in.)

But I noticed this morning that instead of taking me to the YouTube page for the embedded video, it takes me to the YouTube page for the first ad to run on the embedded video. And on top of that, it shows me an ad before showing me the ad.

Seems to work on all IP addresses and multiple browsers.

I should check to see if it does it when I'm logged out or logged into my work account. (Haven't done that yet.)

There's no way to give feedback directly to YouTube or Alphabet, so if anyone knows anyone over at Google, could you ask them to please stop doing this? -thx