There is no way to give members the ability to disable embedded Youtube links, unfortunately. Those threads where they're included in nearly every post can be a royal pain to navigate. My workaround is to pretend those threads don't exist and never visit them.
It's one of the reasons I always put embedded videos behind spoiler tags when I post them (which is very rarely). A thread full of spoilered Youtube videos will load just as quickly as a thread without ANY Youtube videos at all. Unfortunately, the practice didn't catch on. So when you visit those threads, 25-30 videos are simultaneously pre-loading their content. It renders them nearly unusable in my opinion. But those who frequent those threads regularly don't seem to care, so ....
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