Magical CatApr 26

Is it my life experience or YouTube removed the video id from `watch` URL in the address bar to force people use the new `share` URL with huge tracking garbage at the end?

Update: to make it more clear what I talking about, here is how this looks for me now.
Result: I can't copy and paste the watch URL like before to avoid youtube "shortener" URL with tracking parameters and so on.

#enshitification #tracking #privacy #youtube

Show threadSherkel (C. Sabinus Silvius)Apr 26
@koteisaev I still see them straight the same as I always did...what do they look like for you? Do you know what's up with the ads as of today, though?
Show threadMagical CatApr 26

@Sherkel
I use Vivaldi browser, may be this is why I was lucky ad did not seen any ad today.

here is how address bar look for me today. I will update the original post to make more obvious what I was talking about:

Show threadSherkel (C. Sabinus Silvius)

@koteisaev Ah, thanks! I've been using Firefox since I got annoyed at trying to keep history with Brave, so I'll try Vivaldi next!

As for the screenshot...I'm not sure what you're getting at, since that's how they look for me, so I guess I'll stop.

Apr 26 at 2:07amWeb
Show threadMagical CatApr 26
@Sherkel I navigated to a youtube video from a website where a list of video links shown, one link per video.After video opened, the address bar URL is updated to remove the video id parameter from address bar, so I can not share youtube video URL like before (with less aggressive tracking compared to URL from youtube shortener).
I remember that before was possible to copy the video watch url (/watch?v=video_id or such) from address bar and use it directly instead of shortener link.
Show threadPierre \ Ra-Mon Apr 26
@koteisaev
Right-click in url field > display full address
@Sherkel
Show threadMagical CatApr 27
@ramon
Thaniks!
As soon as I made right-click on address bar in Vivaldi it displayed the full URL.
Anyway this was not so obvious trick - I was not able to figure it myself.
So I still think these changes coming from Chrome.
@Sherkel