Because they have AI voices and exciting forced captions that sparkle and bounce in the exact center of the video! Who wouldn’t want that?
Now I kind of want to make a parody of what would be a traditional educational video on YouTube in the style of shorts. Like annoyingly rushed, AI voice, and huge forced captions blocking everything. Making fun of kids today who have no attention span for ordinary videos. A difficult topic like programming or CAD software.
I just installed and tested out the app. I have been using Léon - The URL Cleaner for a while.
I “shared” your clearurls link to URLChecker as a quick test, and then hit the “Unshorten” button, even though I knew it wasn’t a short URL. This is what it resolved it to:
url=../../../1.26.1/specs/rules
Haha… Thanks?
In the end, it takes more taps to do what I want than Leon does. If I share a YouTube link, I have to press “Unshort” then “Apply” to remove useless parameters. Meanwhile, with Leon, it’s already done. As soon as you share to it, it presents the plain YouTube URL with a simpler UI where the buttons have words on them instead of just icons.
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URLChecker
Leon
To be fair, it appears to have fewer features. Leon can’t simply remove all parameters or check the URL status. URLChecker also had it’s own quick list of share targets in that central drop-down in addition to a traditional Share button.
I think I’ll keep both installed in case URLChecker does a better job with non-YouTube URLs.
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I’ve heard those “share IDs” (as I call them) are indeed tied to your account. My worry is that some day there will be a data breach and a mass doxxing of people who shared YouTube links, so I always remove them.
Léon - The URL Cleaner