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

[larymir@chaos.social]

@aesthr I assume it's similar on iOS but I don't own one

(And the fact that you can deactivate it does not change the fact, that this is a shitty (and probably dangerous) feature and that making it opt-out (instead of opt-in) is a terrible decision!

And finding the right setting for the opt-out isn't trivial either, which obviously sucks)

[niko@social.nikopoikulainen.fi]

@batterpunts @aesthr It does.

[ryan@social.miyaku.media]

@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

[niko@social.nikopoikulainen.fi]

@aesthr I noticed maybe a week ago that Facebook does the same. Quite uncomfortable.

[janriemer@floss.social]

@eggg

> Like, eventually we may have to tell people "search for these terms" if we want to share things untracked

This won't be possible either, because apparently YT is frequently changing titles of videos (or rather give creators the option to do so).

Just insane!

@aesthr

[elronxenu@mastodon.cloud]

@aesthr Fukkkkk me

[eggg@hachyderm.io]

@janriemer @aesthr oh that's gross

[eggg@hachyderm.io]

@risc @sanityinc @aesthr sounds as though its already in a/b testing then

[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.