Heres what a recent youtube (which squid documents as a sample use case) link I shared looked like: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFMzQ3tYTFU&pp=ygURY2hQI

Heres what a recent youtube (which squid documents as a sample use case) link I shared looked like: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFMzQ3tYTFU&pp=ygURY2hQImVzZSFDKeW5hc3RpZXM%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFMzQ3tYTFU&pp=ygURY2hQImVzZ... Or Twitter: > https://x.com/elonmusk/status/172853302828286055507?s=20 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/172853302828286055507?s=20 Or TikTok: > https://www.tiktok.com/@<userId>/video/730292574259232054785?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc https://www.tiktok.com/@<userId>/video/730292574259232054785... While I tend to strip the tracking params and there are extensions that do this, I don't think most people do. These URLs are pretty 'ugly'. So if the links that are being shared most on the internet (YT, TikTok, Twitter) don't care, you probably shouldn't either. I think the onus is on the UI layers (Chat apps, etc) to show urls how they look best on their respective platforms. Edit: to this point, it looks like HN truncates these to make them less ugly too.