2026-10-05 21:58 UTC
Replies (18)
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@frayoshi@mstdn.social 2026-10-05 22:12
@stux@mstdn.social It's annoying how they put it everywhere, I need to delete it by hand everytime I share a youtube video >.<
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@IAmDannyBoling@mstdn.social 2026-10-05 22:56
@stux@mstdn.social I got my husband trained to do this for *all* links, and if you knew my husband, you'd understand what an accomplishment that was lol.
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@TimMaddog@mstdn.social 2026-10-06 15:28
@stux@mstdn.social "Source identifier"… So *that's* what that is. 🤔
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@gam3@okla.social 2026-10-06 05:22
@stux@mstdn.social Or you can use https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=42iVcEg5SOM
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@ned@beige.party 2026-10-06 04:11
@stux@mstdn.social I do the same.
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@timtfj@mastodon.social 2026-10-06 12:53
@stux@mstdn.social Just noting that your example link isn't one that uses "?v=", which could conceivably confuse someone. (Hopefully it won't, but there are a surprising number of ways in which people can be confused.)
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@WiteWulf@cyberplace.social 2026-10-06 08:11
@stux@mstdn.social if you’re a Mac user I heartily recommend “Pure Paste”. I got it primarily for stripping formatting when I copy and paste from MS apps, but it also has a feature to strip tracking from URLs. An absolute bargain at $4 https://sindresorhus.com/pure-paste
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@arcticterminal@mastodon.social 2026-10-06 21:38
@stux@mstdn.social not always actually. it can be filters and pagination parameters too. It applies for all websites but most of the case you are right.
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@independentpen@mas.to 2026-10-06 04:14
@stux@mstdn.social I routinely remove it too and it's funny, I didn't know it was a tracker, I just thought it was messy unnecessary junk and I didn't trust it. Which, I mean, yeah
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@leeloo@c.im 2026-10-06 07:38
@stux@mstdn.social Weirdly, when I copy a Youtube link from my browser it doesn't have those. Do they only get added if you click some "share" button?
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@nemo@mas.to 2026-10-06 04:32
@stux@mstdn.social People dont listen Stux I told them a bazillion times I also shared 4 to 5 cross platform & cross browser, ways to tell them and yet still I see them sharing the tracking URLs.
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@felurx@troet.cafe 2026-10-06 18:16
@stux@mstdn.social I usually find it easiest and quickest to just remove the tracking stuff by hand, but there's also apps that do it for you. One I can recommend is "Léon - The URL Cleaner". You either copy-paste the link into it, or you choose it in the share menu, and it gives you the same link without all the junk. Here's a link: https://github.com/leon-cleaning-services/leon (Download links to both F-Droid and Google Play Store are a bit down the page.)
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@theorangetheme@en.osm.town 2026-10-05 22:07
@stux@mstdn.social I wrote an iOS shortcut to strip out the spyware from YouTube links, and it works super well!
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@too_little_caffeine@dotnet.social 2026-10-06 19:04
@stux@mstdn.social https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.zhanghai.android.untracker I use this for Android.
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@EvelynOctavia@c.im 2026-10-05 23:52
@stux@mstdn.social but every single content creator is on youtube? /s, ig
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@noodlejetski@masto.ai 2026-10-06 12:11
@stux@mstdn.social > XcQ
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai 2026-10-06 03:56
@stux@mstdn.social I have been absolutely religious stripping off any tracking tags on YouTube links. I stripped those sorts of things off of regular Web URL because they come loaded with them as well. To hell with it all
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@ecoscore@aus.social 2026-10-06 01:42
@stux@mstdn.social To save looking for the ? Or & in the address I find it’s quicker just to copy the page address from the address bar of your browser and paste that directly into your message. Never use the ‘Share’ button below the video.