You REALLY should remove the tracking codes from Youtube links now.

[risc@wetdry.world]

@eggg oh right, a/b.. would make sense ;w;

@sanityinc @aesthr

[bryce@mastodon.brycedixon.dev]

@joknopp @aesthr Better yet: YouTube ReVanced is a mod package that has dozens of options to make the app more usable. Being able to remove Shorts from all feeds and search results (and the Shorts button entirely) has been fantastic.

[leonardof@bertha.social]

@aesthr Even worse because the person you sent the link to could send the same link, with the same tracking code, to other people you don't care about

[alivedevil@tauri.earth]

@aesthr
At least theoretically, this should be configurable:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/16650958
„share without channel details“ somewhere in the expander sections.

@mvsde

[sanityinc@hachyderm.io]

@ryan @eggg @aesthr hmm, actually yeah, that's what I'm seeing now too. for some reason I thought I'd recently seen such a link without a query string where the id didn't match the video id. I could be mistaken, sorry.

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@SlangC5326 @barryallen2023 @joknopp @aesthr

1. Don't use facebook
2. Don't log in on YouTube if sharing.

[sanityinc@hachyderm.io]

@ryan @eggg @aesthr And yeah, there's the si query param in the share link produced by both the mobile and web apps

[nawanp@fe.disroot.org]

@aesthr@wandering.shop You can do that with Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop#w_copy-clean-link

[tay@tech.lgbt]

@janriemer @eggg @aesthr this thing? https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/16391400?hl=en

[flavimakes@toot.garden]

@aesthr linkcleaner.app <- I run every link through that these days

[erin@blahaj.zone]

@aesthr@wandering.shop does ppl still use google account?

[fiend_unpleasant@mastodon.social]

@aesthr we could also send invidious links instead of direct YouTube links. That should really chap their ass.

[connynasch@mastodon.social]

@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.

[sheamuspatt@mstdn.ca]

@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

[janriemer@floss.social]

@tay Yes, exactly this! Thank you for the link.

@eggg @aesthr

[tpaau17db@mastodon.social]

@aesthr That might actually motivate some people to remove them from their URLs

[maddiem4@raphus.social]

@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.

[sonjdol@ohai.social]

@aesthr it's what they already do with insta and Tiktok links

[glitc_@corteximplant.com]

@aesthr afaik it's similar to tiktok and instagram. Another brick in the walled garden slash surveillance capitalism nightmare.

[walruths@mastodon.social]

@aesthr

On that note -delete your google account.