meliache
Oasus Plainsview 
Sanitize your youtube links!
Stolen from gryphoneer
Vincent Hayes🌹
@itsOasus I actually do this instinctively and have for years now, wish more people would
Levi
Veloxization 
vulp@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"
hyratel
southie wusky
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴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. ..."
Oasus Plainsview :verified: (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image Sanitize your youtube links! Stolen from gryphoneer
Marcel WaldvogelActually, 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)
Stupeflo@itsOasus i believe there are some browser extention to help with that at least
Diabetic Heihachi@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
Merak Burr@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.
Max Wainwright@itsOasus there should be browser plugins for this
Erwin Ernst eest9 Steinhammer@itsOasus I can recommend the plugin "Link Cleaner" for Firefox to do it for you. Privacy shouldn't be exhausting
Hermann@itsOasus https://triangularapps.blogspot.com/search/label/UrlChecker
This app can help to get rid of most tracking embedded in links
Andreas Scherbaum@itsOasus Thanks, integrated in my SyncThing script now. Cleans out all shared YouTube links which appear in Obsidian.
Fanfalla 
The Nerdy Neko🍥🐾@itsOasus Oh jeez. I'll be sure to fix any links I have. ._. Thanks for sharing!
Sen the Professional 
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