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minus-squarerecklessengagement@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·1 month agoI call these “tainted links” which seems to get the point across pretty well to my friends. Started doing it when youtube began adding tracking info to every shared link
minus-squareSchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agothen there is the Spotify way, where every sharer gets a unique link
minus-squarerecklessengagement@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoSpotify and youtube use the same share link formatting, if not the same system.
minus-squareSchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoIf two people send you a yt link os it the same link?
minus-squarerecklessengagement@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoI never directly compared the numbers, I just recognized that the URL formatting is the same. Particularly: [Regular URL]?si=64836474738292974 is appended at the end of both.
I call these “tainted links” which seems to get the point across pretty well to my friends. Started doing it when youtube began adding tracking info to every shared link
then there is the Spotify way, where every sharer gets a unique link
Spotify and youtube use the same share link formatting, if not the same system.
If two people send you a yt link os it the same link?
I never directly compared the numbers, I just recognized that the URL formatting is the same. Particularly:
[Regular URL]?si=64836474738292974
is appended at the end of both.