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   TechAltar (techaltar@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Apr-2026 20:36:21 JST TechAltar

   PSA: If you share a YouTube video using the native share feature it now attaches your user ID (?si=xxxxxx) to the URL automatically.

   YT likely does this to growth-hack DMs. When someone clicks on the link, YT can start a DM thread between you two automatically with this ID even if they found the link outside of the YT app.

   If you post links publicly, I strongly recommend deleting the ID unless you want to post your user profile.

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     Meko #nowar (yura@udongein.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Apr-2026 01:33:04 JST Meko #nowar

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     @Techaltar i remember somebody sending me a few Instagram links with source identifiers and then instagram offering me to follow them basically doxing their account :)
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     Feng Lengshun (fenglengshun@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Apr-2026 01:33:44 JST Feng Lengshun

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     @Techaltar I usually always delete referers and identifiers from all my shared links, YouTube or not.

     Revanced does clean up the links by default, thank god for that.