Ask HN: Why is YouTube adding “&pp=sAQA” to video URLs?

Re:Ask HN: Why is YouTube adding “&pp=sAQA” to video URLs? by qwerty456127 on Friday July 30, 2021 @09:41AM (#28007837)

I actually find all kinds of browser history pollution a very serious problem rendering it almost useless (only useful the way "recycle bin" is - to recover an address of that useful page you have seen yesterday but forgotten).

I wish there were browser extensions capable to smartly sanitize the history by removing duplicate URLs pointing to the same actual page visited multiple times during the day and/or by via slightly different URLs, removing the specific parameters which can be removed without changing what does the link point to, rearranging the remaining parameters alphabetically, removing GMail and alike useless URLs, also normalizing the entry titles by removing everything but the actual article title (e.g. removing website name or moving it to an uniform place - always the beginning or always the end) etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is YouTube adding “&pp=sAQA” to video URLs? by loonster on Friday July 30, 2021 @12:02PM (#28009409)

I like the way Vivaldi Browser presents history. So much easier to use than other browsers.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is YouTube adding “&pp=sAQA” to video URLs? by _-david-_ on Friday July 30, 2021 @10:10PM (#28014585)

I haven't used Vivaldi before. Can you explain what is eaiser to use?

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Re:Ask HN: Why is YouTube adding “&pp=sAQA” to video URLs? by loonster on Sunday August 01, 2021 @12:00AM (#28023694)

It's just organized better. There are some screenshots on the help page that show it better.

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/navigation/history/

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Re:Ask HN: Why is YouTube adding “&pp=sAQA” to video URLs? by pmoriarty on Friday July 30, 2021 @08:06PM (#28013937)

I'd prefer that the browser be taken out of the equation completely.

The web browser is becoming just a shitty operating system, largely controlled by unaccountable megacorps who are primarily interested not in empowering users but in tracking them and serving them ads.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is YouTube adding “&pp=sAQA” to video URLs? by folli on Friday July 30, 2021 @09:44PM (#28014460)

You can use curl if you don't like browsers. It just needs a lot of imagination to get an idea on how the site is supposed to look like.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is YouTube adding “&pp=sAQA” to video URLs? by qwerty456127 on Saturday July 31, 2021 @09:38AM (#28018032)

Whatever, pmoriarty is right. Today a browser indeed is an operating system with its own GUI toolkit and a decentralized repository of apps (we call the web, most of the sites actually are apps today).

Perhaps if the web servers served something like QML/XAML/whatever (while other web servers serving just APIs for them to get/post the content) and there was an operating system command to run such an app by its URL, both the developers and the users might have a better experience. Or perhaps worse.

This way we might even have more than one standard competing: QML, XAML and whatever else would emerge (introducing new would be more viable) vs just HTML.

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