Is this a privacy concern when adding URL to footnote when generating PDF?

Question

I am writing a completely anonymous PDF criticism to a paper, and I added a footnote which links to a video to support my arguments. However, when I click on the link in Adobe Reader, a warning is created which shows the path of link and the path contains my FIRST AND LAST NAME (blanked out and truncated). I can reproduce this privacy intrusion on multiple other PDF readers such as SumatraPDF.

Is this a warning that is only displayed to my system or is it displayed for anyone who sees the PDF? Why would the entire path be embedded for the hyperlink?

or same as: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/23394/url-linebreak-in-footnote?rq=1 — Olórin, Jan 02 '21 at 05:22
because you omitted the https:// you are linking to a local file on your system in a folder www/youtube of your current directory so the issue is not only privacy: the link will not work. — David Carlisle, Jan 02 '21 at 12:44

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 02 '21 at 05:30

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Use \href{<URL>}{<text>} instead of only \url, as in

\href{http://youtube.com/watch?v=aztd}{\texttt{youtube.com/watch?v=aztd}}

with an explicit http:// protocol directive.

answered Jan 02 '21 at 05:30

Werner

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I don't know anything about latex, but what I know about URLs, HTTP, and TLS tells me that it should be https and not http. I should note that I don't think that this will affect op's anonymity, but https is much more secure in other respects. – john01dav Jan 02 '21 at 14:29

Is this a privacy concern when adding URL to footnote when generating PDF?

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