When you share a YouTube video using the share button it adds “si=some_unique_code” to the URL. If you don’t remove that it shows your personal account to anyone who receives it so that they can chat directly with you. For a lot of people this is their real name.

I’ve seen it all over Lemmy so I figured I’d mention it here! You only need the stuff before the question mark in the URL to let others see the video.

This can also be turned off in your YouTube settings under the privacy section. The setting is “channel visibility for shared links”. It will still add the si code for tracking though.

  • VictorEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    You are correct. Or, rather, not the successor but an independent fork (doesn’t necessarily adopt upstream changes).

    I don’t know what the hell I saw just the other day. I am 100% certain that I read that some GitHub project I was looking at said it was a fork of PipePipe, or in reverse, that “you should use NewPipe as it supersedes this repo”.

    🤨 I need to dive into my browser history…

    Edit: ah! It was PipePipe! I just misinterpreted this line:

    NewPipe, reimagined: faster, more stable, and packed with more features.

    I took this to mean:

    NewPipe is a reimagined fork of this project, which is faster, more stable, and packed with more features.

    🤦‍♂️💁‍♂️ D’oh.