The Videoembed userscript tries to change that by turning links pointing to videos on 44 video hosting sites into embedded videos on the same page. This alteration happens directly on the page the links are posted without limiting the user experience on the site. Below is an example from Kottke.org. The first screenshot is showing the original page with the Youtube video link, the second the same page with the userscript activated.

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The userscript supports many of the most popular video hosting sites, among them youtube, Metacafe, Veoh, Gametrailers, Ustream or MySpace. The script works globally and will embed the video if it is hosted on one of the supported video hosts.

The userscript works in Firefox if Greasemonkey is installed and in Google Chrome as well. It is likely that it will work in Opera and other userscript supporting browsers as well. It can be downloaded from the userscript website.

Links are added immediately to the database and everyone will be able to search for and use the links to visit the website and view the video. Page navigation is fast and easy to comprehend. Click on a category like TV-shows and all TV-shows are displayed on the next page. It starts in this case with 15 storey high and 30 rock and ends with young Americans. I would estimate that they currently list about 400-500 tv-shows.

A click on a TV-show itself reveals all the – external – links to that TV-show. Alluc always displays a disclaimer before you can leave the website.

Alluc offers some comfortable options. You can display the latest videos that have been added to a category or display the most viewed ones in a category.