At least you have the option in NewPipe to do so: Sharing from the share button within the video will share the url with time stamp. Sharing using the share button below the video will share the url without time stamp.
Not necessarily. If they watched the video but clicked away somewhere near the end, yt will remember that position for them. If they later saw it again on their homepage and thought, “I liked that video, I should share that” then the link they have there is going to include the start at end bit. Lots of people do not know, or care, about all the bits of a URL so OP could have been ignorant to the fact that URL they copied would do that, or simply missed it, or not cared even after noticing. But I find all of these more likely than OP specifically added it, as you say.
Why post a video like this with the timecode at the end? You explicitly have to tell YouTube to do that…
Maybe it was shared through an app. If I share a YouTube video from NewPipe, by default it will add the time code to the URL.
At least you have the option in NewPipe to do so: Sharing from the share button within the video will share the url with time stamp. Sharing using the share button below the video will share the url without time stamp.
Oooh, I never noticed that difference, just remembered there being a timestamp. TIL, thanks.
Newpipe annoyingly does that by default.
Not necessarily. If they watched the video but clicked away somewhere near the end, yt will remember that position for them. If they later saw it again on their homepage and thought, “I liked that video, I should share that” then the link they have there is going to include the start at end bit. Lots of people do not know, or care, about all the bits of a URL so OP could have been ignorant to the fact that URL they copied would do that, or simply missed it, or not cared even after noticing. But I find all of these more likely than OP specifically added it, as you say.