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Privacy · 1 year ago

YouTube adds tracking parameters to shared URLs that can be traced back to individual Google accounts

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YouTube adds tracking parameters to shared URLs that can be traced back to individual Google accounts

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Privacy · 1 year ago

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So Google is using an URL shortener to make the URL shorter, from YouTube.com to youtu.be but then adds 20 unique identifying characters…

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