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A year or two ago I noticed that Youtube links were messed up in the search result so maybe the writing has been on the wall for a real long time. For instance
by johnchristopher 7y ago
A year or two ago I noticed that Youtube links were messed up in the search result so maybe the writing has been on the wall for a real long time.
For instance, if you google https://www.google.com/search?q=jimmy+eat+world+555 https://www.google.com/search?q=jimmy+eat+world+555 you get a thumbnail with a Youtube URL linking to the actual video but as soon as you right or left click the link it's changed to a google.com link with a lot of parameters. Makes it super frustrating if you want to share a link to the youtube video from the SERP.
- djmips 7y agoI tested that and when I right clicked the link was just the raw YouTube link. Also tried in incognito and same result. Interesting.
- johnchristopher 7y agoHere's a video of what it looks like on my end https://streamable.com/rdppj https://streamable.com/rdppj (ff, incognito, can't remember if I ever checked it out in Chrome). The status bar shows the updated link as I right or left click on it. I then copy paste the new URL to show it leads to the Youtube link. Well: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU-TZiVVaTE" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU-TZiVVaTE" onmousedown="return rwt(this,'','','','1','AOvVaw3lnl6zJ37POHhefQnIow95','','2ahUKEwiZ0PDWzMvlAhVDaFAKHQGODhYQyCkwAHoECAkQBQ','','',event)">