A URL will be something like YouTube.com/r7@usq=616UUhF
What is all the jargon at the end?
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I don’t know what everything means, but here’s a few that I’m aware of:
The first thing after youtube.com/watch?v= is of course the unique identifier of the video, as others have mentioned. As far as I’m aware, it’s just a mix of random numbers and letters.
“?t=44”, tells YouTube to start playing the video 44 seconds in.
“&list=” which links to the video as part of a playlist, so when you finish the video, it’ll go to the next video in the playlist instead of something selected by the algorithm.
I’m not sure what all the extra characters at the end mean when you copy a link from the search page, for example:
The video URL is followed by “&pp=” and a long string of letters; perhaps it tells YouTube that you searched for the video by searching a specific query.
Using the link from the “share” feature adds “&si=” at the end; a quick google search seems to indicate that helps track who shared the video.
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