You REALLY should remove the tracking codes from Youtube links now.
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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.
@aesthr
At least theoretically, this should be configurable:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/16650958
„share without channel details“ somewhere in the expander sections. -
@sanityinc @eggg @aesthr fwiw, every youtu dot be link i see in the wild currently uses the opaque identifier for the global video id (sometimes with the tracking identifier after the question mark that you can strip in the same way). of course they could eventually start switching this to a slightly different opaque unique per-user identifier that looks similar to the video id and it would probably take people a while to notice, but they don’t seem to be doing it yet
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@barryallen2023 @joknopp @aesthr FB share embeds their "who sent it" ID into the codes with no easy "?..."
I paste my share link into a non-logged-in mobile browser, get rid of the "[Name] sent you this blah blah" pop over, and THEN you can copy the plain URL.
I don't share FB content much. It adds 2 steps but I don't really want them to know I shared with X and Y IRL friends.
I see more platforms adopting this more invasive method in the surveillance-heavy future.
@SlangC5326 @barryallen2023 @joknopp @aesthr
1. Don't use facebook
2. Don't log in on YouTube if sharing. -
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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 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.
@aesthr linkcleaner.app <- I run every link through that these days
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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.
@aesthr@wandering.shop does ppl still use google account?
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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.
@aesthr we could also send invidious links instead of direct YouTube links. That should really chap their ass.
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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.
@aesthr my browser is DuckDuckGo which blocks cookie pop-ups and tracking attempts. When I watch youtube through them I have no adverts breaking the video.
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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)
@aesthr If you're on Desktop and use Firefox, it's simple. There's a "Copy Clean Link" command to copy a link without the tracking parameters.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop#w_copy-clean-link -
R relay@relay.mycrowd.ca shared this topic
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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.
@aesthr That might actually motivate some people to remove them from their URLs
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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.
@aesthr been removing these for probably a year now out of a sense of resistance and care for my people. I always figured that ceding this usage information would be a visible problem eventually, and an invisible one before that.
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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.
@aesthr it's what they already do with insta and Tiktok links
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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.
@aesthr afaik it's similar to tiktok and instagram. Another brick in the walled garden slash surveillance capitalism nightmare.
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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.
On that note -delete your google account.
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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.
@aesthr Oh wow, do not want!
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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.
@aesthr maybe stop using surveillance tech, if you want to avoid surveillance. YouTube is not a public utility. It a money making machine for Trump donors.
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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.
@aesthr On Windows I'm using Clipboard Fusion and set up rules to clean up the stuff I copy, including cleaning up all unnecessary Youtube parameters.
