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Re:Report: YouTube adding user-traceable ID tag to links sha... by Roark66 on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @01:54AM (#38541131)
Google has been working with great deal of effort for decades to stop people from using urls. From the integration of the search function in the address bar to the famous mangling of links returned by Google searches. It's why sites like urlclean exist.
Re:Report: YouTube adding user-traceable ID tag to links sha... by Ekaros on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @04:48AM (#38542077)
I just looked at the full URI of very simple google search and it includes my browser for one thing... Why do they need those 387 characters beyond the original query...

No wonder Chrome wants to hide all that...

Re:Report: YouTube adding user-traceable ID tag to links sha... by zo1 on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @07:46AM (#38543121)
It's 100% so they can somehow correlate the data available in the adsense/adwords dashboards given to the site owners.