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To: bitt
Q uestion - did THEY name the file or does youtube????

That URL is supposed to be a totally random string generated by YouTube. It's a big ole coinkydink that it says YesQ.

1,192 posted on 03/26/2020 7:50:10 AM PDT by numberonepal (WWG1WGA)
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To: numberonepal

Most likely, the filenames generated by utoob and other hosting websites are generated by a ‘hash’ algorithm, in order to make them unique, or as close to unique as possible.

Otherwise, their directories would be filled with filenames like “catvid1” “catvid2” “funnycat42”, etc.

Can’t have that now, can we?


1,246 posted on 03/26/2020 8:39:55 AM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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