How to avoid driving traffic from our shared links to corrupt companies... There was a discussion in a thread about how to not driving traffic to certain sites so companies like YouTube don’t profit or get the views. For the users that don’t know, here is what we usually do...   So if you want to make a post and share an article or something, but you don’t want those shady corrupt companies to profit, we usually use... http://archive.is This is an example. If this is your link... https://www.fastcompany.com/90240130/facebooks-new-home-gadget-might-have-a-creepy-camera-as-its-main-feature You would go to archive.is and paste that link in. It will archive and give you a new archived link like this one... http://archive.is/QpgI6 Then when you share the link, they get nothing. Plus, if they change or delete it, the archived version will still be the same.  When it comes to YouTube, you can switch it to Hooktube. Then YouTube/Google get nothing.  All you have to do is, take a YouTube link... https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=U5Vdb76eq8k Then you just replace the part that says “youtube” with “hooktube”, like this... https://hooktube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=U5Vdb76eq8k Then, they get nothing.