Public service announcement.

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@Uglesett

Everything after the "?" symbol can be removed without issue

Uhhhh not really

That also has stuff like timestamps. And in some links, such as on youtube.com/watch?v=videocode, the actually important part of the link is also after the ? (as opposed to on youtu.be/videocode).

@luana @Uglesett well, everything that doesn't look useful, of course you don't want to remove things you know are identifiers like id and v

every good website these days rewrite their URLs to avoid putting these IDs after the ? so on most commercial sites it's mostly for tracking and YouTube is pretty much an exception