YouTube / HookTube RegEx based URL conversion.

Reghook.js

// ==UserScript==
// @name        URL Conversion | YouTube - HookTube
// @namespace   Tazeki
// @description The smallest, possibly most useful YouTube-HookTube conversion script.  RegEx based.  Report bugs to [email protected].  Sends any /www.youtube.com/ sites to HookTube before page load.  Does not affect /other.youtube.com/, (gaming.youtube.com, creatoracademy.youtube.com, etc.).
// @include     *youtube*
// @version     1
// @grant       none
// @run-at document-start
// ==/UserScript==

var url = window.location.toString();
if (url.indexOf('www.youtube.com') !== - 1) {
  window.location = url.replace(/youtube.com/, 'hooktube.com');
} else if (url.indexOf('www.youtu.be') !== - 1) {
    window.location = url.replace(/youtu.be/, 'hooktube.com');
}

Here comes my personal version as a user script with config options, you can state which url parts to redirect, confirm option, polymer, global etc ;

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Yooktube
// @namespace    http://localhost/
// @version      0.1
// @description  Your Script
// @author       nobody
// @match        http*://*.youtube.com/*
// @runat        document-start
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
  "use strict";

  //do you want to disable_polymer UI?

  var no_polymer = 1;
  //do you want to force global content with US English?
  var global_tube = 1;
  //which URL parts to trigger a redirect to hooktube?
  var redirparts = ["watch", "channel"];
  //should ask for confirm before redirect?
  var askconfirm = 1;

  var np = "disable_polymer=true";
  var gt = "hl=en&gl=US";
  var tube = function htube() {
    this.addr = window.location.href;
  };
  tube.prototype.has = function(y) {
    if (Array.isArray(y)) {
      for (var i = 0; i < y.length; i++) {
        if (this.addr.indexOf(y[i]) > -1) return true;
      }
    } else {
      return this.addr.indexOf(y) > -1;
    }
    return false;
  };
  tube.prototype.rp = function() {
    var ht = "hooktube.com";
    this.addr = this.addr.replace("youtube.com", ht);
    return this;
  };
   tube.prototype.fixyt = function() {
    var permitted = no_polymer + global_tube;
    if (permitted > 0) {
      var merger = permitted > 1 ? "&" : "";
      var str = ((global_tube)? gt : "")  + merger + ((no_polymer)? np : "");
       var symb=(this.addr.indexOf("?") > -1) ? "&" : "?";
        this.addr+= symb + str;
    }
    return this;
  };
  tube.prototype.go = function() {
    window.location.href = this.addr;
  };
  var url = new tube();
  var needfix = true;
  var needredir = false;
  if (url.has("youtube.com")) {
    if ((url.has(np) && no_polymer) || (url.has(gt) && global_tube)) needfix = false;
      if (url.has(redirparts) && needfix) needredir = true;
    if (needredir) {
      if (askconfirm) {
        if (confirm("go to hooktube?")) {
          url.rp().go();
        } else {
          if (needfix) {
            url.fixyt().go();
          }
        }
      } else {
        url.rp().go();
      }
    } else {
      if (needfix) {
        url.fixyt().go();
      }
    }
  }
})();

Are there instructions somewhere on how to use this? I suggest it would probably be a good thing. I bumbled around and made it work. Maybe this will some other poor, clueless person:

I'm using Pale Moon. I installed Guerilla Scripting (NOT mispelled) from here:
http://addons.palemoon.org/addon/guerilla-scripting/
Firefox users would probably find Grease Monkey would work the same way. Just guessing.

Then , after studying the content, I downloaded the raw file from here

to this directory:
/home/MY-USER-NAME/.moonchild productions/pale moon/MY-PROFILE-DIRECTORY-NAME/guerrillas/scripts

Firefox users will need to look up how to find their profile directory and maybe read a how to on Grease Monkey .
Works great.

Firefox users will need to look up how to find their profile directory and maybe read a how to on Grease Monkey .

Not at all, @Lew-Rockwell-Fan. Even someone like me, who only had one single script installed was able to do it just fine.

1. Copy the piece of code created by Tazeki
2. Go to GreaseMonkey and hit the "New User Script" button.
3. In the new tab that opens, paste the code and hit the floppy disk/save button
4. Test.

And that's it. It's extremely easy.