Stop sharing tracking links

YouTube started adding tracking parameters unique to your account to your shared links so it can be traced back to you. Meaning, they will know whom you share it with, who interacts with it, which accounts on other websites use the same parameter. If you share a YT video here with a link created with your unique identifiers, Google will tie your Telegram account with your Google accounts.

The same is true for other platforms: Facebook. Tiktok. Instagram. X. ALL OF THEM.

A tracking link looks like this:

https:// website . com / contentID?si=123456

You can guess that "123456" stands for your identifier and will tie every user who clicks on that link to you.

Facebook, for example, uses "fbid" instead of "si". Tiktok uses "utm_source". But they all work the same - they track all users who click on it, and tie them back to you.