Youtube Links #3290
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Hi. Greetings |
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YouTube uses those links for sharing videos. It's not that we chose between one and the other. We just grab the data that is provided. |
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I didn't know, because I've never used youtube natively. Can we have full URLs instead? |
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There are a lot of whys: |
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What? |
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Short-URL are good for nothing. |
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Hi @hacksenwerk after some internal discussion we came to the conclusion that there is no benefit to providing the full URL. The short version https://youtu.be points to https://youtube.com and is owned by YouTube. This isnt some kind of third party URL shortner that anyone can create like http://bit.ly |
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Hi @hacksenwerk after some internal discussion we came to the conclusion that there is no benefit to providing the full URL. The short version https://youtu.be points to https://youtube.com and is owned by YouTube. This isnt some kind of third party URL shortner that anyone can create like http://bit.ly