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 On android I can recommend url-checker to preview the url and control the parameters when opening an link on the client side. You can set it as your standard browser, then it will always display the url to open and has options to remove unwanted tracking parameters.

It is an extra step to open a link, so it can be inconvenient. But it can also save you from visiting sites you dislike before firing them up in a browser.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trianguloy.urlchecker

@LeBonk
The very short summary is that the ReVanced project lead was rejecting a lot of feature contributions with unreasonable justifications, so a bunch of devs left and made their own fork (Among other problems).

This post covers it lightly, and shows where things are at currently.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MorpheApp/comments/1s3w1er/regarding_the_morphe_dmca/

@91749101847199 @LeBonk That post doesn't say anything about PRs being rejected (which is always completely valid to do as a project maintainer regardless of the reasoning). The post *does* mention taking code from Morphe and using it without attribution, which is upsetting, but it also mentions that ReVanced takes "non-bot commits."

What's the reason ReVanced wasn't accepting PRs? I feel like that's important context.

@bryce @LeBonk
If you're interested in oSumAtrIx's side of the story (Revanced's developer), here's their reddit post about it, with links to a google drive of their side of the story.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1q26tvw/comment/nxblagk/

Continued here
https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/1q2ar6e/context_provided_from_revanced_regarding_recent/

There's numerous posts about oSum's behavior leading to many refusing to work with him anymore. One for example.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BoostForReddit/comments/1pkyxvx/i_will_no_longer_be_supporting_patches_in/
Which links to further drama that's been deleted, but archived in the comments.

Final from me in this thread