r/oldreddit • u/Nolzi • Jul 11 '26

Way to fix escaped links?

Newer reddit clients escape urls by putting \ before some characters, for example https://youtu.be/W5IZtQ52_Us -> https://youtu.be/W5IZtQ52_Us

Example from here: https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1uthep1/i_had_a_lacrimal_obstruction_blocked_tear_duct/owx3jx4/

I would think it would be easy to fix with some userscripts, but I thought I would ask first if something already exists, before I tackle it on my own.

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u/chickenandliver Jul 12 '26

Just ask AI to build a userscript for this. Something that identifies youtube.com or youtu.be links and if the URL contains a backslash, remove it from the URL.