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by Causality1 1844 days ago
Many websites use handlers for YouTube links in their comments/messages section that treat it differently that just a hyperlink. For example, if you post a plain YouTube URL to Imgur and someone clicks on it, it won't take them to YouTube.com. It'll open a small pop-up player that strip out any modifiers like the timecode and plays the video from the start. I've also run into this problem trying to share videos with subtitles enabled by default.