Seeing how there are official and unofficial options to download videos from YouTube, I wondered why downloading of videos was endorsed in the first place, I have downloaded videos in the past, but it was due to some project work. I haven’t really downloaded a video for entertainment, education or any personal reason at all. I feel like the type of stuff I watch on YouTube are just for one time consumption and are not meant to be replayed. Is there some sort of content, like a category of videos or videos from a specific creator that I can download and watch in my device offline any number of times and still not get bored with it?

  • T0RB1T@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Does anyone know what the new

    ?si=1gfyLNXsB0DtB0xC

    Metadata actually represents or does?

    I noticed it being added now, after I updated(?) my Revanced build.

    But I know it’s not necessary for the link to work.

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      1 year ago

      It stands for Share ID and it’s a method of tracking who is sharing videos. Always strip those tracking segments from URLs when you share things

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      1 year ago

      Probably tracking, Spotify urls have included this for a while now.
      The value seems to be different every time you share something so it must include a timestamp.
      I always remove this part of urls before sharing them because they could potentially help identify you on any other website where you paste it.