Including embedded video content on your website creates some privacy risk, allowing the party that hosts the video to record information about your visitors and place cookies in their browser. This usually happens as soon as a visitor loads a webpage, whether or not they actually click to play the video.

In 2008, EFF created a script called MyTube to limit these risks. It uses jQuery javascript to prevent a website visitor's client from connecting with a third-party video host until the visitor explicitly opts in by clicking on the play button.

MyTube works with almost every web-video host, whether an all-purpose host like YouTube or Vimeo, or a host specific to a TV show or content-owner like The Colbert Report or MSNBC.

You can see the script in action here and here.

MyTube was originally implemented as a module for Drupal 5, the content management system that powered EFF.org. Starting In 2010, students at the Ohio State University Open Source Club published substantial upgrades to the software, including versions for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7.

You can learn more on Deeplinks.

The most recent version can be found on the Drupal site at https://drupal.org/project/mytube.