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An analyst somewhere who isn't aware that people are literally playing with the test buckets and jumping between them to figure out what the query parameters do
by have_faith 5y ago
An analyst somewhere who isn't aware that people are literally playing with the test buckets and jumping between them to figure out what the query parameters do is going to write a confident report on why A outperformed B.
- quickthrower2 5y agoWeird they need URL params when they know who you are anyway from the browser thumbprint :-)
- lmilcin 5y agoSometimes the intention is to detect the param on the way back, regardless of whom it came back from. For example, the param may point to specific time on the video. Or the param may point that the video is part of some playlist, so that when somebody clicks he is brought not just to the same video but also to same playlist. As we don't know anything about this particular param we don't know if it is the case.
- bserge 5y agoThey're 80% assumptions and fiction in any case, so it's OK.
- sltkr 5y agoWhat fraction of the YouTube userbase do you imagine manually edits URLs?
- lmilcin 5y agoI always strip youtube links of an ampersand and everything that follows when I give them to anybody.
- tester34 5y agoespecially fbclid
- Agent766 5y agoIf I forget to do that I like to say "pardon my url"
- EForEndeavour 5y agoI manually edit "utm_" URL parameters to at least feel like I'm sending harmless easter eggs to analysts somewhere. utm_campaign=helpimabot
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- tsywke44 5y agoCongrats, you’re in the 0.0001% of youtube users who actually does that
- warkdarrior 5y agoThat number is way too high.
- m-p-3 5y agoMost likely quite low. I let my addons handle that. https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls https://gitlab.com/KevinRoebert/ClearUrls
- lugoser 5y agoDidn't work...
- Brian_K_White 5y agoSome.