Of course it does. Firefoxes new ClearURL copy feature is great
I believe Spotify is doing something similar.
Would be nice if social networks and messengers would automatically strip these parameters.
Removed by mod
Eventually I think sites will customize every URL for each user.
TikTok is quite sneaky. Sharing from their mobile app, you get:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/[9digitCode]/Only by opening the URL in a browser will you see:
https://www.tiktok.com/@[user]/video/[19numerals]?_t=[alphanumericIdentifier]&_r=1…which can be sanitized.Here’s how they took it a step further too: YCombinator.
Same with Reddit, FB Messenger, Instagram, TikTok… Some of them are harder to spot, like how Reddit now goes
reddit.com/r/example/s/8913y4h93Would be nice if social networks and messengers would automatically strip these parameters.
I started using URLCheck on Android and SO MANY links have some kind of tracker that you can drop and not lose any functionality. Things like Signal (and even Lemmy/Mastodon) could do something similar and throw up a little warning when it encounters a known tracker, then offer to clean the URL for you.
Another advantage is that the clean URLs are a lot more descriptive
I’m using FairEmail on Android. When tapping a link, thr app detects tracking parameters and offers to remove them. I really like that feature and wish other apps would offer something similar.
Oh that’s nice! Hopefully more apps integrate that function
For example, see the link in the post body here:
Why are you linking to reddit…
I was linking to a page where someone unknowingly used a link with a tracker, as an example of what I was talking about
Here’s a screenshot if that’s better
adding this list to uBlock Origin helps: https://github.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/blob/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt
Do people use the share button rather than just copy the URL from the address bar? Am I just really old?
Am I just really old?
Sounds like you have cleaned a few trackballs in your days
Now I just try to keep my regular balls clean.
Pics or didn’t happen.
LemonpartyDOTcom
Leave that shit on Reddit
Keep up the good fight, buddy
Good. You don’t want these tracked.
If you use youtube on a mobile app rather than a browser, it doesn’t have an address bar
Never use an app for what should be a web page.
An added benefit of the share button is that it generates a minified link – “https://youtu.be/abcde” instead of “https://youtube.com/watch?v=abcde”. I find it neater.
I don’t have a choice when using the app, though I have been removing the tracker from the URL.
Share is easier to do it at a specific time in the video.
Like, you can manually add the “t=x” at the end for seconds, but it’s just easier to click the box to make the share button add it.
Right click on the video, there is an option to copy the video url at the time you want. As far as i can see it does not contain the account info.
Or you could just tell the person what to FF to.
Adds?
I thought they always had them?
They didn’t until a few weeks/months ago on the web version. Not sure about mobile. I noticed when the generated links became twice as long.
No kidding? I always thought they had them. Hmm
Do people not sanitize links they share? 90% of an amazon url is garbage referrer info.
Never log in to YouTube
I find it convenient to do so to follow channels.
Copy clean URLs with ClearURL
Don’t know if any other browsers do it, but Firefox for desktop added an option when right clicking links to copy without URL tracker. I don’t know if it works on yt links, but it’s definitely a step in the right direction.
if i open a youtube link with a share id in newpipe, am I still ok, does it ignore the id? or do i need to delete the id first?
