• Zachariah@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    There are many URLs that require parameters to load a resource (and aren’t necessarily tracking anything). With YouTube’s non-shortened links (for example), the video ID is after the ?, but is usually (but not always) immediately after.

    This:
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

    Can be shortened to:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

    But no shorter.

    (actually, you can remove the www. but that’s not relevant for illustrating my point)

    LOL: thank you Voyager or Lemmy.world for stripping it even from my inline code.

    Here’s what I was trying to post: