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Rose slrpnk.net umbraroze@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-09-18
#52 · Quote Reply

I have this app URLCheck from f-droid that intercepts all links i click and l3t me clean all the parameters and so. I can also use it to share from so I can always clean the links before sharing. The only app that dosen't work well is soundcloud that the tracking parameter is not recognized as so and I need to manual add characters to contaminate the parameter

There's also Léon the URL Cleaner, which is pretty good.

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village604 adultswim.fan village604@adultswim.fan
Joined: 2025-09-27
#53 · Quote Reply

That's dope. What keyboard do you use?

Just the stock one on the Pixel. It doesn't always offer the cleaned links, but I think it does it each time you choose "copy to clipboard" from the share menu.

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CXORA aussie.zone CXORA@aussie.zone
Joined: 2025-03-08
#54 · Quote Reply

If you send me a link with a question mark in the URL, we ain’t friends anymore.

Im sorry I dont want to duplicate the product page for every item in our inventory.

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remotedev lemmy.ca remotedev@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-07-05
#55 · Quote Reply

What’s the extension name? I have this exact same issue. Edit: does it also work for Instagram reels?

It's called noQuery, I think I had aspirations of updating it more to be more versatile lol but never got around to it again. I could look into that though, I need to update it to work with photos on tiktok also not just video.

Let me know if it doesn't work, I never had plans of it really going public lol

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CannedYeet lemmy.world CannedYeet@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
#56 · Quote Reply

I'm tired of being tracked by these urchins

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antrosapien lemmy.ml antrosapien@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-09
#57 · Quote Reply

Yeah, I have that as my default browser. It's great! I just wish certain apps like Discord wouldn't bypass my default browser and open YouTube links directly in the YouTube app. I have to copy them first, and it's a nuisance.

Selecting In your Browser should do it. Some apps declares what urls it can handle in manifest and opens that app directly without consulting browser

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Blemish5236 lemmy.world Blemish5236@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-12
#58 · (edited) Quote Reply

Instead of https://www.youtube.com/shorts/<xxx>, do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v<xxx> There is an equals sign (=) between v and , but for some reason lemmy keeps removing it
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BlackPenguins lemmy.world BlackPenguins@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-20
#59 · Quote Reply

Everything after and including the ? is unnecessary. 99.9% of the time you can delete that shit (Except for YouTube, cause why the fuck should things be easy)

Ya the fact YouTube hasn't built the ID into the URL by now is crazy. Even porn sites do this.

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BlackPenguins lemmy.world BlackPenguins@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-20
#60 · Quote Reply

Im sorry I dont want to duplicate the product page for every item in our inventory.

You don't have to. URL routing can extract IDs from the URL and redirect to a single page.

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T156 lemmy.world T156@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#61 · (edited) Quote Reply

Instead of https://www.youtube.com/shorts/<xxx>, do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v<xxx> There is an equals sign (=) between v and , but for some reason lemmy keeps removing it

You can also use https://www.youtube.com/v/<xxx>. It's the old video link structure, but it still works just fine. It's easier to change it too, since a lot of devices can select text by the word.

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macaw_dean_settle lemmy.world macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-09
#62 · Quote Reply

*Acided.

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Quibblekrust thelemmy.club Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club
Joined: 2025-02-09
#63 · Quote Reply

Selecting In your Browser should do it. Some apps declares what urls it can handle in manifest and opens that app directly without consulting browser

I just tried that. (With the YouTube app, not Google Play, like in your screenshot.)

It didn't help. Clicking a YouTube link in Discord still opens it in the YouTube app.

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recklessengagement lemmy.world recklessengagement@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-02-15
#64 · Quote Reply

If two people send you a yt link os it the same link?

I never directly compared the numbers, I just recognized that the URL formatting is the same. Particularly:

[Regular URL]?si=64836474738292974

is appended at the end of both.

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/home/pineapplelover lemmy.dbzer0.com pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-30
#65 · Quote Reply

Instead of https://www.youtube.com/shorts/&lt;xxx&gt;, do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v&lt;xxx&gt; There is an equals sign (=) between v and , but for some reason lemmy keeps removing it

Epic

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msage programming.dev msage@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-12
#66 · Quote Reply

for youtube you can remove everything starting from the first &amp;. it just needs the v=zBGlI4DKlL4 parameter

Unless you're sharing a playlist

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Korne127 lemmy.world Korne127@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
#67 · Quote Reply

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Nope, that doesn't work
I tried it and then only the \ is displayed

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Tartas1995 discuss.tchncs.de Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-30
#68 · Quote Reply

I sometimes share youtube shorts with my wife, and I always edit the url so it plays in the default video mode instead of the shorts interface

I just remove the tracker

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_g_be lemmy.world _g_be@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-21
#69 · Quote Reply

Every time I get a share link I’m always pasting it and deleting everything after the /? Like if there’s an extension to auto strip that shit out, I’d be happier

I use URL check , intercepts clicks and share action and lets you prune out the extra parameters. And other features.

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leds feddit.dk leds@feddit.dk
Joined: 2023-06-01
#70 · Quote Reply

Yeah, I have that as my default browser. It's great! I just wish certain apps like Discord wouldn't bypass my default browser and open YouTube links directly in the YouTube app. I have to copy them first, and it's a nuisance.

When I set it as default browser any links I click within Firefox will also open in urlcheck instead of Firefox navigating to that link, any way to avoid that?

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leds feddit.dk leds@feddit.dk
Joined: 2023-06-01
#71 · Quote Reply

What until they add a checksum to the url and refuse to open the link when checksum doesn't match so you can no longer modify the URL ( don't give them any ideas)

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Quibblekrust thelemmy.club Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club
Joined: 2025-02-09
#72 · Quote Reply

When I set it as default browser any links I click within Firefox will also open in urlcheck instead of Firefox navigating to that link, any way to avoid that?

I have never had that problem, so I don't have any ideas. Sorry.

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