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YouTube adds tracking parameters to shared URLs that can be traced back to individual Google accounts (nitter.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

An added benefit of the share button is that it generates a minified link – "https://youtu.be/abcde" instead of "https://youtube.com/watch?v=abcde". I find it neater.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/abcde

https://piped.video/watch?v=abcde

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

First link is 404, second link is not 404

[+] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I always assume shortened links are viruses, at least that's what got ingrained in me from the yearly security IT lectures

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That is 100% wrong. Did you read the tweets or even look at a single YouTube URL?

youtube.com/watch?v=FOO&si=BAR would be shortened to just youtu.be/FOO?si=BAR

The link to other people’s account is in the &si=BAR part. Probably standing for “share ID” or “source ID”or something. The shortened link is just the same as the long one with watch?v=FOO being included in the URL instead of the parameters.