Why do websites generate random alphanumeric strings for urls instead of using row ids?
- by jorm
Why does many sites (youtube is good example) generate string of random number and letter instead of using for example the row id?
usually its something likes this
bla?v=wli4l73Chc0
instead of like
bla?id=83934
Is it just to keep it short if you have many rows? Or is there other good things about this? Because i can imagine: bla?id=23934234234
dont look so nice
Thanks and cheers