I just found a cool new service for linking to videos on web. It's called NoSpoiler.com, which you can visit here. The idea is that if you want to send your friends a link to an interesting video on YouTube (or Google Video, Break.com or Metacafe, all of which are supported), you replace the actual videolink with a special link that will make the video appear on a blank, comment free page.

Why would you want to do this?

Because of the comments! The author's motivation was getting an email from a friend saying, "Check out this video, but don't read the comments. They're spoilers." In that case, the friend was referring to the common fact that the comments often reveal the contents of the video (especially the best parts or secrets to magic tricks, and so forth) before you even watch it, spoiling the experience.

I have a totally different reason for liking the NoSpoiler.com site. My beef with YouTube is the rampant offensive and racist comments that make me sick and which they allow to sit and fester and pollute thousands of YouTube videos. I've taken to purposely avoiding the comments section and have sent my own warning emails to friends, like, "Check out this video, but avoid the comments if you don't want to get offended." So, this is a handy solution until YouTube (now Google, in fact) decides it wants to clean up the community space. That's probably not going to happen any time soon. Until then, there's nospoiler.com. Have you found other sites that provide a similar service? Post your findings in the comments below.