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whywhywhywhy 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and str...

I think the urls might be specific to your session in some cases. I’ve noticed some old IG posts I’ve put in bookmarking services say they’re expired.

So passing to yt-dlp would be traceable back to me in that case.

Definitely wasn’t cookies that’s what surprised me.

tecleandor 3 months ago [–]

Ah OK, I was thinking about youtube, I re-read it and saw noticed you were talking IG. Yeah, I've noticed some IG URLs are suspicious: different from other users or opening related info that it shouldn't be there.

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