Re:Report: YouTube adding user-traceable ID tag to links sha...
by userbinator on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @11:44PM
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Of course, people these days have no idea what a URL or URL bar is, as it's often hidden anyway
...and if you didn't think this wasn't one of the goals of that trend, now you do. Those in power hate it when people can consume information from and communicate outside of their sanctioned methods.
We saw it coming when they started dumbing down browsers and hiding things from users --- not because the majority wouldn't use them, but to deliberately make users less inclined to learn.
Nearly 10 years ago(!) when that started happening, I made a comment here about how many YouTube users at the time realised what was the important part of the URL (the video ID) and began to use that in comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7678729
...and if you didn't think this wasn't one of the goals of that trend, now you do. Those in power hate it when people can consume information from and communicate outside of their sanctioned methods.
We saw it coming when they started dumbing down browsers and hiding things from users --- not because the majority wouldn't use them, but to deliberately make users less inclined to learn.
Nearly 10 years ago(!) when that started happening, I made a comment here about how many YouTube users at the time realised what was the important part of the URL (the video ID) and began to use that in comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7678729