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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ChangeChameleon@dragonchat.org ("Change Chameleon 🍇") wrote:
Heads up.
Have you seen that new chat feature on YouTube? I just discovered if you hit "Share Link" and send someone a YouTube video, it will now be considered an invite to chat as well. Meaning the tracker link attached to the video now links to you directly. To turn this off when hitting share, go to the "sending as person" drop down and click "change in settings". That will take you to the privacy settings where you can toggle it off.
I had thought my brother had initiated this to try the feature. Turns out it's an on-by-default setting that links directly back to your username (or real name depending on your Google account settings) when you share a link outside YouTube.
It's now more important than ever to remove the tracking markers from links if you haven't been doing it before.