# Have links to YouTube been disabled?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [April 1, 2023, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958 "2023-04-01T01:35:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/246 "2023-08-21T23:05:29Z")

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I do web design professionally as part of my job, you can’t have spaces in a web address. That’s why we love putting \_ in file names.

If you want a space in an address you use HTML code %20 instead, because an actual space doesn’t work.

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