Youtube ?rel=0 tag no longer working

Question

I was trying to share a Youtube link and wanted the person to just see that clip without any of the irrelevant suggestions that pop up next to it. I knew that adding ?rel=0 (or &rel=0) at the end of the URL used to achieve this, but this doesn't seem to be working anymore. After googling a bit, I found suggestions to use the youtu.be domain instead of youtube.com, but suggestions were shown nonetheless, or the URL gave an error. How else can I share this link and have no 'related' clips shown on the side? Thanks!

Answer 1

rel=0 is used to disable related videos shown at the end of a video, not to remove the suggested videos in the sidebars.

You can use the embed URL to access the video on it's own - http://youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ. Add ?rel=0 to disable the related videos at the end too.

Answer 2

Note, that rel=0 no longer works if you are signed into your Google account (YouTube, Gmail, etc).

&rel=0 only works when not signed in. However, you can get around this by using the enhanced privacy mode:

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/[id]?rel=0