[gsich]

I once posted a Youtube comment with a link. Got removed without notice. I thought it was the uploader first but no ...

[animuchan]

Amusingly, new YouTube channels can't themselves put links in the description of their own videos even.

They really dislike this whole hypertext thing.

[kevin_thibedeau]

They really want Xanadu's for-profit linking.

[ahartmetz]

Imagine how bad that could have been, had it happened - extrapolating from the current state of the web.

[brokenmachine]

I'm pretty sure I still see spam links in youtube comments though.

[senkora]

Yeah, anything with a link gets silently removed.

Wikipedia links seem to be an exception, maybe that’s special-cased.