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

[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.

[berniedoesit@mstdn.social]

@aesthr Oh wow, do not want!

[leanderlindahl@social.folkdata.se]

@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.