You REALLY should remove the tracking codes from Youtube links now.

They started showing a popup about who sent the link and offering a (maybe new) DM feature, potentially revealing your personal account name to anyone who opens the link.

you can anonymize the link by removing the part of the link after the “?”

(at least for youtube currently, this can be different on other platforms and may also change in the future)

@aesthr I am so with you on this! on firefox there is an addon that can keep track of doing that for you: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/clearurls/
ClearURLs – Holen Sie sich diese Erweiterung für 🦊 Firefox (de)

Laden Sie ClearURLs für Firefox herunter. Entfernt Tracking-Felder aus URLs