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The @ sign as a consequence of the recent youtube handles policy does not play nice in the Youtube box in the Edit Profile section:

The field “YouTube” has invalid characters, only alphanumeric or _,-. characters are allowed and the first character must be alphabetic.

Thanks.

So it states that the handle itself cannot contain the @ character. I don't believe the @ should be included in the profile. It would be just noise. As for the youtube links it serves a purpose of indicating its a handle for redirection.

Unless, I read that wrong... Are you sure the @ should be included here?

+Oh, okay, so it turns out Chrome accepts both https://www.youtube.com/username and https://www.youtube.com/@username for the channel, so got blinded by the noise.
And yes, it looks as if it's just the username and not the url in the Youtube field, interesting that the Google box accepts the + though.

Yeah, the + is considered within the single text field character set. .... but google plus is discontinued ... so maybe it should removed altogether...