Going to put https://tuta.com/ out there as an alternative, if people are looking for one. I don’t love their UI/UX, but it gets the job done and seems to be security and privacy focused. The clients are open source as well.

Not always, like the piped link above uses the parameter after the question mark to know which video to load so you would lose crucial information. It’s often pretty obvious what is important and what is not though. The parameters are separated by an & so you can cut off anything extra if you want. You can also just try it in your browser and make sure it still works before sharing it.