So I built this web page for privacy-enhanced sharing of YouTube videos. You can try it too. In the footer, click "Convert url" and you can paste the url of any YouTube video. It will convert to my url and you can copy the link or visit the page right away.
https://yt.axbom.com/?id=8enXRDlWguU
If you're unclear on why you have to load the video before you can play it it's because the first load only loads the image, title and channel name to make the page itself load much faster.
The person viewing is then allowed to make a more considered choice before activating the video. Perhaps you want to open the link an incognito window instead for example.
One great bonus to this embed is that it shows way less ads, if any.