• variants@possumpat.io
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      11 months ago

      I always assume shortened links are viruses, at least that’s what got ingrained in me from the yearly security IT lectures

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      11 months ago

      That is 100% wrong. Did you read the tweets or even look at a single YouTube URL?

      youtube.com/watch?v=FOO&si=BAR would be shortened to just youtu.be/FOO?si=BAR

      The link to other people’s account is in the &si=BAR part. Probably standing for “share ID” or “source ID”or something. The shortened link is just the same as the long one with watch?v=FOO being included in the URL instead of the parameters.