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)

if you’re on an Apple device, you can use this shortcut that does it automatically for most popular platforms:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/ac969c798e1d4e78af488fea9530921a

i’m sure a similar thing exists on android but I don’t have a non-ancient android device.

@aesthr
I'm foreseeing soon that the share button will no longer include the video URL but is a bespoke share link which is harder/not possible to reverse engineer / strip out the share metadata.

Like, eventually we may have to tell people "search for these terms" if we want to share things untracked

@eggg @aesthr that's already the case if you use "share" from within the YouTube app or web interface itself: youtub dot be domain links with an opaque unique identifier.

Edit: I may be mistaken here

@sanityinc uh, no? the "share" feature in the web interface gives a https://youtu.be/<video ID>?si=<junk> link, at least in my case (not logged in).

@eggg @aesthr