kropot Sep 20, 2023
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Spotify does this too if I recall.

Firefox has a plugin called ClearURLs that cleans URLs across the entire web, not just YouTube. Might be available on Chrome too.

Sep 21, 2023 at 4:41pmWeb
Show threadMatt ZagajaSep 21, 2023
@Flaky @krusynth believe latest iOS and MacOS will scrub these automatically as well.
Show threadQuick FastlySep 21, 2023
@[email protected] you can also do this with ublock origin by adding actually legitimate url shortener as a custom filter
Show threadBrahmsAug 24, 2024
@kit @Flaky this sounds fancy, beside the basic filtering I never used any advanced features, will try that out! Thanks!
Show threadGoerpSep 22, 2023
@Flaky @kropot
And Facebook. But maybe that doesn't need saying?
Show threadlily 💖Aug 24, 2024
@Flaky @kropot Spotify also uses it for the lyrics preview, like if you select the lyrics and share them. As far as I'm aware there's not another way to do this (but you can just get the lyrics from like genius or some place)
Show threadlily 💖Aug 24, 2024
@Flaky @kropot Spotify is especially creepy. In the Android app at least it knows when you take a screenshot of the app. I have no idea why but I'm sure it can't be good.
Show threadRobotAug 24, 2024
@kdj8 @Flaky @kropot either its crawling your screenshots folder (ew), or its using the android 14 screenshot detection api (also ew)