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Vexz@kbin.social to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

YouTube adds tracking parameters to shared URLs that can be traced back to individual Google accounts

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YouTube adds tracking parameters to shared URLs that can be traced back to individual Google accounts

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Vexz@kbin.social to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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    1 year ago

    For example, see the link in the post body here:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/18dsi68/whats_going_on_with_kim_kardashian_and_taylor/

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      Why are you linking to reddit…

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        1 year ago

        I was linking to a page where someone unknowingly used a link with a tracker, as an example of what I was talking about

        Here’s a screenshot if that’s better

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