I once posted a Youtube comment with a link. Got removed without notice. I thoug...

animuchan · 2025-01-28T12:57:38 1738069058

Amusingly, new YouTube channels can't themselves put links in the description of their own videos even.

They really dislike this whole hypertext thing.

kevin_thibedeau · 2025-01-28T15:54:36 1738079676

They really want Xanadu's for-profit linking.

ahartmetz · 2025-01-29T10:19:01 1738145941

Imagine how bad that could have been, had it happened - extrapolating from the current state of the web.

brokenmachine · 2025-01-31T01:06:01 1738285561

I'm pretty sure I still see spam links in youtube comments though.

senkora · 2025-01-30T14:21:04 1738246864

Yeah, anything with a link gets silently removed.

Wikipedia links seem to be an exception, maybe that’s special-cased.