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> Here's a great YT video on why McDonald's ice cream machines are always broken: https://youtu.be/SrDEtSlqJC4?si=IK1S-Yx9Zq4nEVrr

As habit or policy, can we all agree to get rid of the tracking information in Youtube links?

* https://youtu.be/SrDEtSlqJC4

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Similarly Instagram started adding tracking querystrings (igshid or something like that), and for a good few weeks any Instagram link with it was completely broken for me (few loops, errors, and throwing me to the home page), I had to manually remove that part of the url.

My bad! Fixed. Didn't even realize the YT links had tracking info on them!

FYI, it's the "si" query parameter; It identifies the account that clicked the share button

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