Removing the big play button on YouTube inbedded

Question

I'm planning to have my favorite youtube videos embedded on a page, it is possible with plain html and css?

Answer 1

It is the big red button I am talking about, maybe a work around would be to use thumbnails instead?

Answer 2

Yes look at my code

https://code.sololearn.com/WoHic98S0DV2/?ref=app

However you can not remove YouTube's red button... that is their product...