YouTube source identifiers - And how to counter them

[Secret Boots]

https;//youtu.be/0oSDAf0q93Q?si=GayRetardedDataminer
Highlighted in red is the aforementioned source identifier. Its purpose is to mine data on you. If you post a link with a SI on social media, such as here, Google finds the link and now knows that account on said social media belongs to you. If I click your link, Google now knows our accounts are connected.
Fortunately the solutions are simple:
1. You can delete it.
2. You can type NIGGERFAGGOT into it and giggle like a sixth grader, which is what I recommend you do.
Either way, the video link itself will remain functional.

Show a middle finger to Google; sanitize your link. Also, if you copy the video URL from your browser's search bar, you can evade having one attached in the first place.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

Quick trick. Right click the video to get YouTube's overriding context menu (second click will use your browser's, may be useful for getting a screenshot of the current frame) and use that option for getting the current timestamp instead of the share button one.


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https://youtu.be/bK5Pda-_z-4?t=143

This is also good for quickly getting a URL that will embed here when it is a /live/ video.

 

[We Are The Witches]

Quick trick. Right click the video to get YouTube's overriding context menu (second click will use your browser's, may be useful for getting a screenshot of the current frame) and use that option for getting the current timestamp instead of the share button one.

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https://youtu.be/bK5Pda-_z-4?t=143

This is also good for quickly getting a URL that will embed here when it is a /live/ video.

And if you don't want to go to that timestamp, you can always add &t=#h#m#s by just replacing the # by the number, so for 1 hour, 30 minutes and 10 seconds it would be &t=1h30m10s

When you go to the link, YouTube will convert it to seconds and change to &t=5410s in this case.

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Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbnH3VHzhu8&t=1h30m10s

 

[Salaryman]

For all the mobilefags out there using android, I suggest downloading NewPipe since it doesn't contain source identifiers in youtube links when copied by default.

 

[soy woah jaque]

If you copy the video URL from your browser's search bar, you can evade having one attached in the first place.

Why doesn't everyone do this instead? I've never touched the share button ever

 

[Secret Boots]

Why doesn't everyone do this instead? I've never touched the share button ever

You can't copy the URL on the phone app, so mobile users end up posting the share link.

 

[Slav Power]

In my case these identifiers start with &pp=, and I added a snippet to my AutoHotkey script to automatically sanitize them when I copy them:

OnClipboardChange ClipboardFilter
ClipboardFilter(ClipType) {
    If RegExMatch(A_clipboard, "^http.*youtube.com/watch") {
        If RegExMatch(A_clipboard, "(&pp=)") {
            A_Clipboard := RegExReplace(A_Clipboard, "(?=&pp=).*", "")
        }
    }
}

(?=&pp=).* is your magic RegEx formula to find and replace everything starting with and including &pp= up to the end of the URL, and the identifier always gets added as the last part of the URL.