[mahdi7d1]

Damn. I noticed this happening a while back and I didn't think much of it. I just deleted the si= part because I knew it's not necessary for a Youtube link to work! I was curious about why this has been added and figures there's been something nefarious going down.

[iforgotpassword]

I kept using the app (with ads) because despite my hate for Google I still thought it was the right thing to do. And using YouTube in a browser on mobile felt clunky. But I noticed that identifier in the shared url too and that, plus the increase in ads, finally pushed me to ditch the official app and go with NewPipe. No more ads, no tracking in the URL, sharing the URL can be done with timestamp, when tapping a yt Link in another app, I get asked if I want to play it right away, enqueue it, play it in the background or play it in a little floating window.

[jackjeff]

Newpipe and Yattee are awesome. I don’t regret the couples of evening I spent setting up a local sever.

I used to see ads occasionally on YouTube before they tried to crack down. The irony lol.

[nntwozz]

Another vote for Yattee (works wirh tvOS too), I use it with Invidious as the backend.

Pure bliss.

[dvfjsdhgfv]

Am I the only person who never clicks these "Share" buttons but just copies the link from the address bar? It's fast and easy - Ctrl+L, Ctrl+C.

[fingerlocks]

The share button is the next step: Ctrl+V.

At least on Apple devices, it allows you to “paste” things in surprisingly unlikely places. With some finesse, you can even add custom actions on MacOS like passing it to a shell script that downloads and then pipes it into ffmpeg or whatever. Yeah I use it a lot

[PawgerZ]

Thank you for introducing me to Ctr+L; I don't know how I've missed that all of these years.

[slashtab]

Same thing I've noticed for Instagram links and many other different apps. Most of them have started tagging the link, to track the user, or check who interacts who, I think.

Those who don't want clean link manually, can use link cleaner apps or uBlock origin in browser.

[mrtksn]

Right, first I noticed Twitter doing it and then YouTube. I thought, someone sold those corporations new tracking tool or an existing one got a new feature.

But Twitter doesn’t appear to do it anymore.

[accrual]

Maybe it's just buried in a POST somewhere and no longer a urlparam?

[dewey]

That would defeat the whole purpose of the parameter for tracking links shared off-site.

[accrual]

Thanks for the correction.