I'm new in the development world so excuse me if the title is confusing. I searched for a related question but I didn't find any.
So I have a question that bothers me up lately and I wanna know why youtube's tag's href attribute is like href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=/some sting here/&q=www.somesite.com" instead of the web site's real address like href="www.somesite.com"?
Is it for some security concerns or something like that?
Thanks
To collect data for analytics.
This is a standard technique to track clicks on the link before sending the user to a third-party site.