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@itsOasus@pawb.funSanitize your youtube links!
Stolen from gryphoneer
@Neybulot@itsOasus I actually do this instinctively and have for years now, wish more people would
@Neybulot@pawb.fun @itsOasus@pawb.fun Same here, there's also browser extensions that do this for you automatically
@Calaifur@itsOasus @veloxization @Neybulot
Amazon and Walmart are super annoying for doing that. Literally a CVS receipt sized url
@itsOasus Meanwhile on reddit they've taken the next step of making the whole url a tracking string! They have these new /s/ links when sharing from the app. Every post can now have multiple completely different links to it, and the url doesn't contain the actual id of the post. It's probably not great for archival either. I really hope other websites don't copy this "feature"
@HistoPol@mastodon.socialIMPORTANT:
#Google uses #YouTube links to identify your YT account and link it to others, creating security risks.
The same seems to be the case for #X, #Amazon, #Reddit, and others.
"Why you should delete that?
"...1. You post that link on social media, Google crawler finds it, checks the data base and now it knows this account on other social media belongs to you. ..."
Actually, sanitize *all* the links you use or pass on!
utm_*, gclid, …
There is even a #Firefox #AddOn which does this automatically for you (and also skips some tracking-only redirects):
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/clearurls/
Update: If you activate "AdGuard URL Tracking Protection" privacy filter in #uBlockOrigin, it will do the filtering as well, just not the redirect-skipping. (h/t @oatmeal [emacs.ch])
@stupeflo@pipou.academy@itsOasus i believe there are some browser extention to help with that at least
@itsOasus
Peep this I just found for android.
Intercepts links clicked, you can be sure you are not clicking unwanted query strings with it and sanitize them if they are there.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trianguloy.urlchecker
@itsOasus https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/
This Firefox extension has been generally been good for helping me avoid that.
@itsOasus Also joke's on you, I ignore every Youtube link people send me anyway.
@itsOasus there should be browser plugins for this
@itsOasus I can recommend the plugin "Link Cleaner" for Firefox to do it for you. Privacy shouldn't be exhausting
@itsOasus https://triangularapps.blogspot.com/search/label/UrlChecker
This app can help to get rid of most tracking embedded in links
@itsOasus Thanks, integrated in my SyncThing script now. Cleans out all shared YouTube links which appear in Obsidian.
@The_Nerdy_Neko@vt.social@itsOasus Oh jeez. I'll be sure to fix any links I have. ._. Thanks for sharing!
LB: I actually DL'd my masto archive and went through all my old posts checking to see if I'd left an 'si' parameter on a youtube url. Thank goodness, I didn't. (I normally strip off extra CGI params. Good thing too!) I'd prefer to keep this account separate from my assigned name online identity. Of which it's probably time to go back and delete any recent posts with PII in them