• helenslunch
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    This is exceptionally frustrating.

    If someone posts a YouTube link on Facebook it will show the thumbnail and the description and that’s it. There’s literally no way to locate the video because it obscures the address, ensuring that the only way to reach that link is by clicking it and running through Facebook’s tracking system (l.facebook.com).

    YouTube itself has also begun doing the same thing, obscuring the title and channel in the browser, so you can’t even search for the video via FreeTube or NewPipe or anything else.

    Reddit is also doing this now by hijacking links and redirecting to out.reddit.com

    Sad days.

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        I have all kinds of software that are supposed to stop this. They don’t work.

        I even manually add the tracking domains and they still don’t work.

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              Extensions or front ends?

              For extensions I use libredirect and for YouTube I use invidious. Libreredirect redirects YouTube links and replaces embedded YouTube videos.

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                None of those frontends work. Every single time they just take me to a dead site.