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.

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:

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over_clox@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 94d (1 reply)

Welcome To The Internet...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU

Link shared and pre-cleansed from Grayjay 👍

cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 94d

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.

001Guy001@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 94d (1 reply)

I don't have that option. Is it maybe only on mobile?

sidebro@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 94d

Yes, on the app

cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 94d

This is why I open all YouTube and Instagram and Facebook etc links in private windows

Chozo@fedia.io · 2 pts · 94d (3 replies)

I'm confused, how does the recipient access the sharer's username from this?

Noja@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 94d (2 replies)

Google is revealing the username with a popup that says

"Sent by [display username]

@[username at registration]"

Chozo@fedia.io · 3 pts · 93d (1 reply)

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.

LodeMike@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 93d

Its part of the youtu.be's page <title>

shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 94d (1 reply)

I've been using Pure Link on Android to make deleting the parameter a bit easier

reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 93d

I've been using URLCheck.