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
cwicseolfor (has moved!)@alice @Uglesett @luana With YouTube specifically you need to look for that si= part, the Share ID. In URLs with multiple ampersanded sections you can usually just pull the troublemaker. Unfortunately these are often idiosyncratic to different sites.
Easier: use Firefox, and when you go to grab the link use the “copy clean link” in the right-click menu.
JBrickelt963 ✊(φ)🚩@cwicseolfor sur Android j'utilise #URLChecker pour identifier les paramètres inutiles et les supprimer. Sur PC, il y a l'extension ClearURL sur Firefox en plus de leur option "copier le lien nettoyé"