When you share a YouTube video using the share button it adds “si=some_unique_code” to the URL. If you don’t remove that it shows your personal account to anyone who receives it so that they can chat directly with you. For a lot of people this is their real name.
I’ve seen it all over Lemmy so I figured I’d mention it here! You only need the stuff before the question mark in the URL to let others see the video.
This can also be turned off in your YouTube settings under the privacy section. The setting is “channel visibility for shared links”. It will still add the si code for tracking though.
pretty much everything that has a “share” button does this. it’s not to help you share the link more easily than copying from the address bar - it’s to harvest your data
Even voyager gives a link to vger.to when you hit share instead of a direct link to the thing you want to share. No idea what they are doing with it (other than trying to redirect it to the app). Maybe it’s set up to just use the localhost and that’s all it does, but I usually strip that part out because I have no idea either way.
vger.to solely exists so i can text dumb memes to my non tech inclined friends, and they open in voyager on their device instead of the web.
It’s a dumb service and has zero analytics other than cpu disk bandwidth use lol
Would you be able to add an
open in browserbutton, or a way to just copy the normal link as well? I can’t see any way to do it in voyager. It’s probably my only issue with it.Yeah you can change default in Settings, or if you’re sharing a post you can long press the share icon in the post bar right under the post to select on demand
voyager event supports sharing via author, community, or your own instance.
Yeah, this is why that vger.to link is so annoying for me (other than triggering the reaction to the dark pattern, even if it isn’t exploiting it like what seems to be the industry standard these days), because most of the time when I use the share thing, I’m really just trying to get the url to open it in my browser, so that “open in voyager” link is the exact opposite of what I want, though I can see how it might be nice for actually sharing the link with others.