glimmer_twin [he/him]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 days agoSo if I post a YouTube link hexbear tells me to use one of the other links, but when I use one of those it says there’s trackers and it’s gonna delete my post in 4.5 hours. What giveshexbear.netimagemessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up138arrow-down1imageSo if I post a YouTube link hexbear tells me to use one of the other links, but when I use one of those it says there’s trackers and it’s gonna delete my post in 4.5 hours. What giveshexbear.netglimmer_twin [he/him]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square6fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareREgon [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·8 days agoYeah we really should fix the youtube bot to automatically remove the tracking links lol
minus-squareWhat_Religion_R_They [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·8 days agoThe person who runs it isn’t a Hexbear user, or if they are they’re inactive. The InsidiousTrackers bot even explains what changes are needed to the code of HexReplyBot to remove the trackers automatically, but it hasn’t been incorporated.
minus-squareRedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·8 days agoThe new version of Lemmy will do that automatically when we update to it.
Yeah we really should fix the youtube bot to automatically remove the tracking links lol
The person who runs it isn’t a Hexbear user, or if they are they’re inactive. The InsidiousTrackers bot even explains what changes are needed to the code of HexReplyBot to remove the trackers automatically, but it hasn’t been incorporated.
Dang
The new version of Lemmy will do that automatically when we update to it.
Very cool!