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YouTube adds tracking parameters to shared URLs that can be traced back to individual Google accounts (nitter.net)

submitted 11 months ago by Vexz@kbin.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago

Eventually I think sites will customize every URL for each user.

TikTok is quite sneaky. Sharing from their mobile app, you get: https://www.tiktok.com/t/[9digitCode]/

Only by opening the URL in a browser will you see: https://www.tiktok.com/@[user]/video/[19numerals]?_t=[alphanumericIdentifier]&_r=1 …which can be sanitized.

Here’s how they took it a step further too: YCombinator.