Thomas FuglsethPublic service announcement.
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🏳️🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️🌈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).
Alice 
@luana @Uglesett playlist also. So e.g. how would one clean up this link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsiKUsrqFkc&list=PLvoAL-KSZ32dRMGLza8Dw4xZK6_1ItjNr&t=52
So much stuff here, but all of it is necessary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsiKUsrqFkc&list=PLvoAL-KSZ32dRMGLza8Dw4xZK6_1ItjNr&t=52
So much stuff here, but all of it is necessary.
v indicates which video it is, list indicates which playlist it is, t indicates the timestamp. Granted, this isn't a youtu.be link, but only because that one already removes playlist, so it's not useful for sharing videos with their context intact.
The Problem with Video Essays
Tock@Tock @Uglesett @luana no, as a matter of fact taking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsiKUsrqFkc&list=PLvoAL-KSZ32dRMGLza8Dw4xZK6_1ItjNr&t=52 and cutting off everything after ? - that is
Those 4 are safe to cut, yeah, but "just cut off everything after ?" is straight up misinfo - that's how you end up with people sharing broken links
v=IsiKUsrqFkc&list=PLvoAL-KSZ32dRMGLza8Dw4xZK6_1ItjNr&t=52 - will not show the intended video - https://www.youtube.com/watch is not a video URL. Time is also important - I might be linking to a specific point in a 4h video, for example.Those 4 are safe to cut, yeah, but "just cut off everything after ?" is straight up misinfo - that's how you end up with people sharing broken links
The Problem with Video Essays
@Tock @Uglesett @luana v doesn't have to be the first parameter + again, you stil have time and playlist. Like I said, time is important - maybe you're linking to a specific point in a 4h video essay, for example. Playlist is important if you're , say, sharing a music video from a soundtrack or album split into individual tracks per video rather than a single video for the whole thing.
So - again - you can't blindly remove things - know what is safe to remove and use common sense. Sometimes it's fine to omit both time and playlist (sometimes even desirable), often not.
So - again - you can't blindly remove things - know what is safe to remove and use common sense. Sometimes it's fine to omit both time and playlist (sometimes even desirable), often not.
C++ Wage SlaveThis #Firefox extension, #ClearURLs, removes tracking junk from URLs:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/clearurls/
It's available both on desktop and on Android.
no sauce only ketchup@CppGuy You're a godsend, I was literally just wondering if there are extensions for that because I usually remove those identifiers manually 🤭