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Always delete the si= or is= parameter from a shared YouTube link. This will work until they copy Reddit's idea of encoding both the video ID and sharing indica
by inigyou 4mo ago
Always delete the si= or is= parameter from a shared YouTube link. This will work until they copy Reddit's idea of encoding both the video ID and sharing indicator together as one big opaque encrypted string.
- dns_snek 3mo agoDoes Reddit do that too? Is it just on the "new" UI? I know TikTok encodes it in an inconspicuous way, the ID in the shared URL just looks like a normal ID but it's different from the bare video ID. Then both of you (I think) get a "Do you know person xyz?" type of notification.
- inigyou 3mo agoReddit encodes the whole thing in an opaque blob, giving you a URL like reddit.com/share/<blob> that cannot be transformed into any other format without fetching it.
- chorizo 3mo agoOn a browser, you can strip the share id and post title to create a “clean” old.reddit link, with this pattern: https://old.reddit.com/r/bapcsalescanada/comments/1vd9h0j/ https://old.reddit.com/r/bapcsalescanada/comments/1vd9h0j/