Unable To Play Trailers

On Trakt Web, I’m unable to play trailers. When I click the “Trailer” button, my browser switches to fullscreen with a YouTube message “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” and two buttons/links (“Sign in”, “Learn more”; if I’m using Linux they appear as buttons, when I’m browsing on macOS they appear as text links as in the screen recording). I’m unable to click either button: the mouse cursor does not change to “click” when I hover over either of the buttons, and clicking either button as well as anywhere else in the window changes to a title card style image for the embed; clicking again takes me back to YouTube’s “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” message. Exiting fullscreen returns me back to the Trakt page.

I get that YouTube thinks I’m a bot for some reason, and that reason is nothing specifically to do with Trakt. The frustration and usability issue I have is that there is no way around this, specifically no direct link to the YouTube URL.

There was a time, or at least some videos, where clicking on the poster image on Trakt took me directly to a YouTube link for the trailer, but none of the shows I’ve clicked through today have that - hovering over their poster image says “Stream on …” and clicking opens a link to the show on Amazon/Netflix/OtherGeo-lockedStreamingService which really isn’t the same.

Example used in the below screen recording: Trakt Web: Track Your Shows & Movies

YouTube has been doing this for a while to numerous sites. Essentially they’re trying to ensure you watch the video on their own site so as to generate revenue.There’s ways around it using TamperMonkey scripts to mimic NoCookie domain replacer, or various addons that accomplish the same.