LinkCleanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ&t=42s&si=AbCdEf12345
LinkClean preserves this parameter — no change.
t
Region & language (preserved) · YouTube · functional — preserved
What does t= mean on a YouTube URL?
What t= does on YouTube
YouTube's player reads t= from the URL and seeks the video to that point on load. Values can be raw seconds (t=42), human-readable durations (t=1m20s, t=01h30m), or even hour-minute-second combinations. The player normalises all three into the same seek position.
It's set by YouTube's “Share at current time” checkbox in the share dialog, and you can add it manually too. The conventional shareable form is https://youtu.be/<id>?t=<seconds>.
Why this matters for URL-cleaning tools
Naïvely stripping all single-letter query parameters would break YouTube share links — t= would vanish along with x.com's t= (which IS a tracker). LinkClean's catalog host-scopes the t/s rules: on x.com / twitter.com, t= and s= are stripped as tracking tokens; on youtube.com / youtu.be, t= is preserved as functional and si= is stripped instead.
Same logic applies to Vimeo (#t=2m), Twitch (?t=01h00m), and other video sites that use t= for the same purpose.
How LinkClean handles it
Preserved on youtube.com, youtu.be, and other video hosts. The cleaned URL keeps the timestamp; the share-identifier si= is stripped.
Frequently asked
Why is t= a tracker on X but not on YouTube?
Same parameter name, completely different meaning. On x.com, t= is a per-session share token X uses for share-source attribution. On youtube.com, t= is the video timestamp. LinkClean's catalog host-scopes both: stripped on x.com, preserved on youtube.com.
What formats does YouTube's t= accept?
Raw seconds (t=42), human-readable durations (t=1m20s, t=01h30m), and combinations. YouTube's player normalises all three.
Does YouTube's share dialog add t= automatically?
Only when you tick “Start at <time>”. Otherwise the share link starts at 0:00.
Clean tracking on iPhone, in one tap.
LinkClean strips ~80 vendor-specific tracking parameters from any link, from any app's share sheet — and preserves functional ones like hl, t (YouTube timestamp), and q (search). No account, on-device.
