TRACKING YOU VIA SHORT LINKS!
+ Tracking Your Network of Friends also !!!!!

So instead a long link of parameters like

youtube.com/
watch?v=VIDEONAME
&b=CHROMEBROWSER
&o=LINUXDEBIAN8
&l=YOURCITYNAME
&r=SITECAMEFROM
&e=etc

you might be given

youtube.com/N8oSOgJvG74

So youtube(Google) already has tracking as link but even more as another short link pointing to that link + the tracking parameters inside (like re-wrapping a link).

Almost 100% this is cloaking the link for various reasons or getting evn more data using parameters in the new short link (or code)...
mostly bad stuff, It's shorter but a combination code connected to their databased.

LONGER LESS POLITE VERSION

ALL YOU A$$HOLES who think links are innocent, youtube / Google is innocent and other people are not clever enough to infiltrate your groups THINK AGAIN. It's begun since a while and time to wake up and fix habits before they fix you!

Basically you end up spying on your friends by sharing things and allowing your computer to record in another link your info.

Computers are very clever now and the ignorant or 'less-unaware' lazy actions add to all problems (you don't think they want to do everything manually do you?)

Clever code has helped to allows this. Code and links measurably worry me how instant and capturing the data is from one side sent to some unknown BigTech company.

Quite similar to surveillance, espionage, undercover work, your clicking of short links automated include where you're from, thesite you came from, and other data which allows wrapping people as groups from link, mapping of people (location, device etc), who it's been given it to or where is was talked about. SUPER FOR Shutting down things.

Is worrying if globalism is increasing (the mess made by corporate and financial-based people) because it's most likely this will be used against us all again just to get more and more money or cause more and more anti-resistant data. This is dangerous to give this much info away in 1 click!

@freeschool I'm gonna append

&b=CHROMEBROWSER
&o=LINUXDEBIAN8
&l=YOURCITYNAME
&r=SITECAMEFROM
&e=etc

literally to the URL to see what it does...

Heh it quietly reloaded the page with those parameters removed

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@sjb :) those parameters aren't exactly the one's for youtube - and I think as time goes on these will be hidden - literally making links close to useless (for privacy)

who could imagine, links without seeing where it goes / what it's doing... just an advance spam-like technique used by corporate groups! Same old but increasingly more powerful... in the wrong way

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