Report: YouTube adding user-traceable ID tag to links shared off-platform

Re:Report: YouTube adding user-traceable ID tag to links sha... by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @10:19PM (#38540144)

Yeah, I remember that. Specifically what I remember is a discussion on reddit about how a lot of youtube videos have useless stuff in the first ~30% and someone who joined the comments -- wadsworth -- also happened to work at youtube. Apparently with enough freedom to have an extra parameter check deployed to production. Probably around 2012. The parameter I remember was wadsworth=1.

Edit: Got the story wrong. Wadsworth was just a commenter with an opinion and someone who worked at youtube had a sense of humor.

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/kxfxy/and_so_ends_20_...

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Re:Report: YouTube adding user-traceable ID tag to links sha... by satvikpendem on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @12:53AM (#38540853)

Wadsworth's constant lives on in spirit via SponsorBlock blocking all the intro BS and allowing users to set a timestamp as a highlight with a button to skip to said highlight. I use that feature all the time.

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