HOW I DID IT Redirecting Your CHANNEL URL To ANY OTHER YOUTUBE URL [REUPLOAD]
I got really interested in how everything regarding the "wathc" thing with youtube worked, and after playing around for some time I figured out it was just a regular channel redirect, and that google had a feature for just that https://support.google.com/youtube/an...
http://web.archive.org/web/2022052116...
I also found some discussions regarding the topic
here is where I got the archived video url from as well
/ this_happens_if_you_change_watch_to_wathc_...
/ i_came_across_a_strange_youtube_video_that...
Reupload of this video which is now private:
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original title: HOW I DID IT Redirecting Your CHANNEL URL To ANY OTHER YOUTUBE URL
Internet Archive url:
https://web.archive.org/web/202108041...
Actual video url:
https://web.archive.org/web/2oe_/http...
Url from video:
/ jaime123456789
For this to work you need a channel that was either created before youtube changed the way they name channels, or by having a custom channel url.
As searching channels by channel ID's won't perform a redirect (because the channel would then be practically inaccessible). Even if you do not do this, by intercepting the packets, adding a channel redirect url and sending the changes to the server, the server will actually save them, and upon sending the same request the server will send back packets which contain the added url for the "redirect url" field. Youtube doesn't allow editing of the domain so you can't redirect straight to another site, instead it just saves what you entered and appends it to "https://www.youtube.com/" but as youtube does have a "cross site" redirect url (like the one you get when clicking on links in comments) I suppose this can be circumvented.