PSA: Please remove URL trackers from YouTube links before sharing
YT adds strings of code to the end of web links so it can collect data such as what account sourced the video, who then clicks on it, webcrawlers can link public accounts sharing it...
Find & remove a URL tracker from a link:
If you have a long link & there's "?si=" in the middle, that's the beginning of the tracker. Remove the ?si= & all the subsequent numbers, letters & symbols after it. The cleaned link can be shared normally 😊
@Kitty@metalhead.club no
You should link to the video on an invidious instance like https://yewtu.be/ instead.
@Kitty
I haven't seen these types of links in youtube for a long time.
All the ones I see look like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSAocqCRYZw .
There's no way to remove the tracking aspect of the link.