It’s more for your benefit. So the users of the link don’t get the rest of the YouTube page auto populated with links related your interests and get virtually linked to you via metadata. And so you don’t get that annoying tracking token disrespector message lol. I really dislike YouTube. My in-laws were over this week and they had their smart phones on the counter with all of their bullshit centralized social media apps on board and obviously listening, and my anonymous YouTube feed is now filled with a whole bunch of stuff that we talked about. Products, political topics, etc. A bunch of stuff that I never have spoken aloud otherwise. I hate this fucking digital surveillance shit so much.
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any recommendations for other platform then YT? i am with you on the centralized digital surveillance, trying to avoid as much as possible, that’s one of the reasons i found nostr 😉 still many of my contacts are on X so still following them on X 😬
I found a couple invidious instances that had the link