@Ylfingr here's the musical number from the movie in case you were wondering, since I'm pretty sure you haven't seen it;

https://youtu.be/LgR6UNeQxXE?si=jgvnFsbJJkKaSy7H

@Leucrotta Oh, there's a MOVIE!

The only Yellow Submarine we know is the Beatles song, so yeah, I was quite confused. :3

@Leucrotta *copies link*

(psst: ?si=blah / &si=blah on youtube links is tracking junk and I'm pretty sure you can safely remove it!)

@Leucrotta if you're ever confused about how to safely trim unneeded garbage off a URL

this is part of the "query string", which is where the tracking junk generally lives, but also useful stuff. It looks like this:

?name=setting&name=setting&name=setting&...

So for instance, Youtube uses the "v" setting for the video ID. You gotta keep that. "si" is the garbage here. There are other ones for things like linking to a specific time in the video.

For things like, say, eBay listing links, the ID is the number in /itm/12345678/ and you can safely remove ALL the query string ?... stuff, it's all garbage. Amazon item pages similarly have the ID in the path like that, instead of the query string.

Firefox has a fancy schmancy new "copy without site tracking" feature, it works only on specific websites that are big enough that the Firefox people wrote rules for them. Thankfully, big websites are, well, big websites, so most of what you'll run into is likely covered.

@Leucrotta And now I should probably actually watch the video. :3

@Leucrotta ...well, youtube uses the v in the query string in its normal youtube.com/watch?v=blah URLs.

shortened youtu.be links just have the blah right in the path, youtu.be/blah .

@Ylfingr Thanks! And I didn't know about that last part, with Firefox - and Firefox is my preferred browser. Gotta think about that.

@Leucrotta Neat! It's a relatively new feature; if it's missing, you might need to update, but you probably don't since our installed Firefoxen are pretty old. This one is uh... 128.0b9. (Yeah, yeah, "updating browsers is important for security!" but when they include garbage "AI" features or whatever it was Mozilla added recently that was crappy...)

Anyway it should appear in the rightclick menu for any link, tracking junk or not. Right below "Copy Link".

@Leucrotta Firefox in general also has more neat features like this. You probably don't need cookie containers (officially called "container tabs") anywhere NEAR as much as we do, but for us they're indispensable! Instant multiaccount support, on any website.

@Leucrotta ...why does this remind me of Pink Floyd?

[[Topaz I think?] Probably the reverb and surrealism.]

Yeah that makes sense. :3

@Ylfingr There's a movie! It's the only one of the movies the Beatles were contracted to do which is actually a cartoon. The Yellow Submarine itself is a big chunk of the story. It's mostly songs from Revolver and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

There'd BEEN a Beatles TV cartoon as part of their popularity and they really didn't like it, so they assumed the movie was going to be the same style as the TV cartoon and it became a dumping ground for stuff that didn't make Sergeant Pepper's so they just had it around, plus "Only a Northern Song" which was George basically writing about how he didn't want to write anything for the movie.

Then the movie turned out to be this colorful trippy love-fest and the band LOVED it.

@Leucrotta Haha neat! :3

@Leucrotta (also that's long? pff that's nothing. :3)

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