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Ethan

@bueschertruetone

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hi I'm Ethan, I'm a chemist+musician and I yell at/into the void frequently

...I hate that twitter is what I am linking but it is the most public facing thing I have so 24truetonetenor there! most usernames I will make in the future will have something about Buescher and/or True Tone in them though because I'm uninventive with usernames and autistic about the history of musical instrument manufacturing.

Cohost has been very fun though yay

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Pauline-Ragny
@Pauline-Ragny

Begging y'all to please sanitize your links.

I always try removing the shit after the ? and if it doesn't affect the destination of the link at all then I assume it's tracking bullshit and in my opinion you should too.

androidGirlthing
@androidGirlthing

you start to get a feel for when you can and cant remove everything after the ? and be fine, and occasionally even what specific parts are necessary and what can be removed

VeraLycaon
@VeraLycaon

a dissection of things that can appear in a youtube link, from the best I've been able to ascertain

These will all appear after either a question mark, or an ampersand in the URL for further arguments:

  • v=[bunch of numbers and letters]: Video ID. Essential to sharing a Youtube link for reasons you can probably figure out; do not remove. Only appears in this form on the main site (in the format https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[video ID]&[further arguments]) or on links shared by simply copying the URL on desktop; sharing from mobile or using the share button from videos will yield you a shortened link in the format of https://youtu.be/[video ID]?[further arguments].
  • t=[number, usually one to four digits long]: Timestamp, in seconds. Sometimes also formatted in hour:minute:second format as [x]h[y]m[z]s. Can be safely removed if you want to link the video from the start, but you probably won't want to.
  • fmt=[two digit number]: Video quality; shows up mostly in very old links as a way to force high quality playback back in Youtube's early days. Does nothing these days.
  • feature=: Internal tracking data for how you use their site, usually shows up as feature=shared on a video shared using the share button. Feel free to remove, but ultimately doesn't do much in most cases beyond tell Youtube you used this particular feature, I feel.
  • si=[bunch of numbers and letters]: As far as I'm aware, this is the personalized tracking bullshit. Either way, it sure is doing nothing useful clientside, so remove with great prejudice just on principle.

There may well be stuff I missed here; off the top of my head this is just what I've been able to think of.

EDIT: Further additions, thanks to @dzamie and @Starra mentioning them in the replies and comments:

  • pp=[bunch of numbers and letters]: As si=, tracking nonsense. Given that it specifically shows up in URLs copied from the search page, likely connected to that somehow. Remove.

  • list=[bunch of stuff] and index=[bunch of things]: Playlist functionality. Remove if you want to send the video by itself, keep if you want to attach the playlist you found it in; may break some external applications.

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Starra
@Starra

There's also list= and index=, which show up when you copy a video url that's being watched as part of a playlist; they keep track of which playlist and what position in it the video is, respectively. Only really useful if you want to send the playlist along with the video; I've found that keeping it in can cause problems in some watch-together sites (namely "adding the entire playlist to the queue when you only wanted to add one video").

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