YouTube has unveiled a new feature: if you have a tracker link when you share a YouTube video, the recipient can now get your channel name & username.
3d 4h ago by sh.itjust.works/u/hal_5700X in technology@lemmy.zip
https://xcancel.com/KellytoyDK/status/2065524085602374041/ https://ghostarchive.org/archive/kqfii
You can turn this off by changing the channel visibility for shared links in the Privacy settings:
Never share YouTube links with their source identifier.
Here's some Youtube frontends:
- FreeTube: https://freetubeapp.io/
- Grayjay: https://grayjay.app// https://grayjay.app/desktop
- NewPipe: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
- LibreTube: https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube
Welcome To The Internet...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU
Link shared and pre-cleansed from Grayjay 👍
What does this do that pipepipe doesn't? Couldn't understand why it was so buggy and huge, like its half a gig in storage.
I don't have that option. Is it maybe only on mobile?
Yes, on the app
This is why I open all YouTube and Instagram and Facebook etc links in private windows
I'm confused, how does the recipient access the sharer's username from this?
Google is revealing the username with a popup that says
"Sent by [display username]
[username at registration]"
I see that in the screenshot, but I don't see how to actually expose that once you have the URL. For instance, I can grab a YT link from just about any Discord server I'm in right now, and almost all of them have trackers at the end. But when I click them, I don't see anything that reveals the sharer's details, it just looks like a normal YT page. I'm not sure where you actually get to the screen in that screenshot.
Its part of the youtu.be's page <title>