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		tootie on July 16, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube video has its own URL in it I'm wondering how this could actually be exploited. Is there any value in knowing your URL ahead of time besides impressing the HN crowd?

henryfjordan on July 16, 2019 [–]

you can post links all around the web and do some kind of SEO-bomb for the video if you can guess the URL before hand, but that quickly happens organically for popular/viral stuff anyway

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