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To be fair, even if you know to remove them, it is annoying as fuck to do so.
A bot is probably a good way around it, although I wonder if the bot could be tricked into sharing an unintended video.
Firefox can do it automatically by pressing "Copy Clean Link" but it only works for certain websites and sometimes I've noticed it won't properly clean the URL even on supported websites. It's getting better in recent versions of Firefox however.
I know its meant to do it, but I have no idea how it works on mobile. Which is annoying, because its most useful on mobile.
For any android users reading this, urlcheck can auto remove tracking portions if a link, as well as allow to automatically apply the link to a privacy focused front end (is that what e.g. nitter is called?).
Sure it's still am extra step to share the link to urlcheck first before sharing it to your recipient. But hey it takes out the menial task by a lot.
Yes, there are browser extensions that can erase any common part of a URL you wish after you click on it.