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Hmm, now I wonder why YouTube doesn't offer 'prettyfied' urls so we don't have to click links like: http://youtube.com/watch?v=never-gonna-give-you-up http://y
by TweedHeads 18y ago
Hmm, now I wonder why YouTube doesn't offer 'prettyfied' urls so we don't have to click links like:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=never-gonna-give-you-up http://youtube.com/watch?v=never-gonna-give-you-up
- Xichekolas 18y agoNot to be totally facetious, but if they did it'd be much harder to Rick Roll someone.
- ensignavenger 18y agoYou could still use the old, ugly URL for such purposes.
- vaksel 18y agowhats stopping someone from using a different title?
- paul7986 18y agoDo ppl still enjoy a good RickRoll? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XffuAFl18_k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XffuAFl18_k - watch out :) .
- pclark 18y agoprobably the same reason Facebook, Amazon, eBay and tons of other companies don't use prettyfied urls.
- sachinag 18y agoAmazon and eBay have systems going back to 1995 to support; they also expose prettified URLs that redirect to Google. They know they have a (slight) problem there, but they do the best they can with what they've got. As for Facebook, I've always thought they were pretty human-readable.