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As in that part and everything after it.
If you're on Android, URLCheck is an extremely handy utility for cleaning up shared links.
I’m not entirely sure how well it works since I don’t often send links to others, but I use a uBlock Origin filter list called Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool. It may help those who don’t want to do all of this manually?
Use YouTube patched with Revanced
Test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Looks like Tubular automatically removes the '?si= and &si' bits? Or is that for desktop links only?
Firefox has this trimming built in. When you right click to copy a link, there's another option: Copy Clean Link.
Remove everything after and including the first &
This can be applied to many websites. Google and Meta tag tracking data into nearly every link they bring you for popular sites, namely any shopping site. They're boasting how many clicks they garnered for a merchant while obviously building your massive online profile.
In Google's case, there's also massive finder's fee fraud for ads. I search a specific few products to research them but don't buy any. I now get ads all the time for them. I then buy one a week later. Google says to the seller they brought me there and takes a commission. All those borderline-unavoidable tracking tags have tied anl served ad I don't remember to a product I was going to buy anyway
Anyone know of any method for android to automatically scrub copied links for trackers, or if an android keyboard exists that scrubs them on paste?
Why should I care? Much easier to blindly copy and paste a link than to remember to delete a portion of it. The extra long link is mildly annoying, but even that’s not an issue if you show the video title instead of the URL.
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