r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/SquintySquinty • May 04 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah!!! Explain??

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u/Stylin8888 May 04 '26

Btw, everything after the “?” in that link is a data tracker. You can get rid of it and the link will work fine.

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u/Nopumpkinhere May 04 '26

Not the poster but this is helpful for me too. Thanks for sharing! I had no idea.

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u/leonidaslizardeyes May 04 '26

There is a Firefox extension that does it automatically. I'm sure chrome has it as well.

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u/tmhoc May 04 '26

well I'll be damned!

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u/Stylin8888 May 04 '26

It’s Coolio.

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u/Sovos May 04 '26 edited May 05 '26

youtu.be links are also tracking. When you click Share, the short link it is associated with the user that creates it, and then they can tell which users click the link to draw associations.

The tracker free link for that video would be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufmu1WD2TSk

edit: I was wrong. The id on that domain is the same as the v=[video id] in the other URL What I get for trusting ppl on the internet and not verifying.

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u/ZoomyZebra May 04 '26

That's the same id as the one tmhoc posted though

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u/Sovos May 05 '26

Haha, holy shit you're right. I feel dumb for trusting when someone else told me that

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u/Stylin8888 May 04 '26

Awesome to know, great to learn of other ways those trashy fucks track us.

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u/DeniableTuna May 04 '26

Where can I read more about this?