You REALLY should remove the tracking codes from Youtube links now.
They started showing a popup about who sent the link and offering a (maybe new) DM feature, potentially revealing your personal account name to anyone who opens the link.
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you can anonymize the link by removing the part of the link after the “?”
(at least for youtube currently, this can be different on other platforms and may also change in the future)
if you’re on an Apple device, you can use this shortcut that does it automatically for most popular platforms:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ac969c798e1d4e78af488fea9530921a
i’m sure a similar thing exists on android but I don’t have a non-ancient android device.
@aesthr
I'm foreseeing soon that the share button will no longer include the video URL but is a bespoke share link which is harder/not possible to reverse engineer / strip out the share metadata.
Like, eventually we may have to tell people "search for these terms" if we want to share things untracked
@aesthr Agree that you should remove them before sharing!
uBlock Origin's "AdGuard/uBO – URL Tracking Protection" filter will remove them from links you click, if you want to save a step cleaning any links you _receive_. (Only works if you don't have the YT app, of course.)
