IMPORTANT:
#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. ..."
Attached: 1 image Sanitize your youtube links! Stolen from gryphoneer
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)
Oasus Plainsview 
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
Marcel Waldvogel