clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
Oh. Now youtube has a new type of URL with /clip/VeryLonnngCodeBEUDHWJdheh instead of the traditional /watch?v=123456789AB.

It represents a part of traditional clip, which is cool I guess, but I bet you get a unique identifier every time just like with the new FB URLs. Otherwise it could have just been like /watch?v=123456789AB&t=23s..42s. Also e.g. NewPipe doesn't parse it yet, of course.
Aug 23, 2022 at 11:21amWeb
Show threadFiXatoAug 23, 2022

@clacke there are some more differences with time-stamped videos though.
First of all, a #YouTubeClip also includes the profile of the person who clipped it, and tracks views of that specific clip, giving some sense of 'ownership' to the person who clipped it.
It also doesn't show the full video till you click on 'watch full video', which probably helps for embedding, as I've frequently run into timestamped URLs not being properly interpreted, and the embed starting at the start of the video rather than the timestamp. IIRC a timestamped video also doesn't loop as easily, which a clip does.

Not saying that most of these issues couldn't be resolved with just timestamp URL variables, but I don't think it's quite the same or bad as FB URLs.

Though, unless I am doing something wrong, the stop and/or end URL parameters actually no longer seem to work? Which would be a bad development imho...

Show threadclacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛Aug 23, 2022
>> I bet you get a unique identifier every time just like with the new FB URLs> includes the profile of the person who clipped it, and tracks views of that specific clip, giving some sense of 'ownership' to the person who clipped itThat confirms my hunch then. Some personalization as added value to incentivize tracking.
> I don't think it's quite the same or bad as FB URLs.Just more incentivized.

@FiXato