AI6YR BenHmm, anyone familiar with the work of this fellow? (Paul Beckwith)
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On Android, I use Leon. As an example, using the link from that guy's post:
https://youtu.be/1mOpfS5AzsA?si=lxYzfFgaTKquYw03
That was the original; ?si= and everything behind it is the tracker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mOpfS5AzsA
That's what it looks like after it's been run through Leon. You can, if you know which part is the tracker, just get rid of it yourself, obviously; notice how Leon automatically changes it from youtu.be to youtube.com which is also good, and harder (for me, at least), to remember how to do manually. It also takes longer to do that by hand, obviously.
On Android, I use Leon. As an example, using the link from that guy's post:
https://youtu.be/1mOpfS5AzsA?si=lxYzfFgaTKquYw03
That was the original; ?si= and everything behind it is the tracker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mOpfS5AzsA
That's what it looks like after it's been run through Leon. You can, if you know which part is the tracker, just get rid of it yourself, obviously; notice how Leon automatically changes it from youtu.be to youtube.com which is also good, and harder (for me, at least), to remember how to do manually. It also takes longer to do that by hand, obviously.
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You take the part behind the forward slash behind youtu.be and put watch?v= in front of it, and then change the domain itself from youtu.be to youtube.com. So I can remember how to do it now that I'm looking at it, but I don't usually remember offhand. The only time I ever do that manually is (however ironically) on desktop, with YouTube shorts specifically, when I want the original page (that looks and functions like the page for a normal YT video). IIRC, in that case, you just change /shorts/ to /watch?v= because, again, the identifier is the same.