Disable automatic oEmbed of a youtube url within the content

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I run a small site based on wp with user generated content. Users often submit youtube links. And then wordpress automatically converts these links to videos which is unwanted in our case. I need to override this automatic behavior so that the submitted youtube links remains in plain text urls ?

I found out that I could remove the oembed provider itself with something like wp_oembed_remove_provider('http://www.youtube.com/oembed') but I am stumped at how do I use this in my case where $content is the string that contains the url as well as the submitted post content ? The codex page doesnot says much about it. Could someone give me an example of how this can be done.

In other words I need the oEmbed to skip any youtube link/s in content. Also please let me know if there is a better/more efficient way of solving this.

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disable the oembed like below in functions.php :

remove_filter( 'the_content', array( $GLOBALS['wp_embed'], 'autoembed' ), 8 );

Thanks!

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