@FediTips@social.growyourown.services using youtube address bar to share link also avoids some google tracking

@FediTips ahhh! I wondered when the video was embedded and when not .. thanks!

@FediTips I just had that happen with a gift link from the WaPo

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I'm using Freetube to watch youtube videos so I can't copy link with "youtube.com" but only "youtu.be"

@FediTips google is evil

@FediTips Thanks! I was trying to figure out what the issue was.

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thank you ! very useful

@FediTips side note: anything after the ? In a YouTube link can and should be removed. It's all tracking info.

If you've clicked a YouTube link on Fedi before, there's a good chance Google has linked your Fedi account to your Google account in their backend systems via tracking.

@FediTips thanks!!

p.s. It's possible too that this may not work for you, there seems to be a bug that is difficult to nail down. I've just been messaging with someone who cannot get the full length address to work for some videos on their server, but the same addresses work on my server.

I'm mainly posting about the shortener because removing it has worked for some people, and it's worth a try. (Plus removing shorteners will help protect your privacy in any case.)

@FediTips or you can just manually retype it from youtu.be/<ID> to youtube.com/watch?v=<ID>

@FediTips Maybe #mastodon should figure that out???

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I was wondering about that.

@FediTips Or that annoying german consent interruption page.

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YouTube link sharing

@FediTips Unless you're in the app, in which case it only gives you the shortened version.

Is there a technical reason the preview cannot be extracted from the shortened URL?