For the same reason people use link shorteners at all. It’s much more pleasant to look at and makes people more likely to press it compared to a paragraph-long URL full of tracking garbage.
For the same reason people use link shorteners at all. It’s much more pleasant to look at and makes people more likely to press it compared to a paragraph-long URL full of tracking garbage.
Please. The URL above is pretty short, this is not the kind of URL link shorteners were made for, in fact it’s already shortened, as @alecco pointed out.
Pleasant? I could not care less about the pleasantness of the video code, but a shortened URL in this case would not be more pleasant, and it would be functionally worse, and barely shorter; all you’d be able to trim is the “?si=“. I’m baffled by this thread.