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Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by Grazester »

amingilani wrote: post #206
sarim wrote: post #58

I have never seen Youtube not work. Ever. This is a special moment. Glad you are all here to share it with me :)

I am proud to say that in 2008 my country knocked this puny website off the interwebs in a bid to censor it within the country. They accidentally hijacked the global IP addresses[0] I am also proud to say that my country left the domain for their original Internet Exchange Point[1] unregistered. Guess who scooped it up? PS. My country is Pakistan. [0]: https://www.cnet.com/news/how-pakistan-knocked-youtube-offli... […

Well everyone here seems mighty proud of censorship. Its too bad when Google themselves want to do it in China everyone loses their shit!

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by exikyut »

ddtaylor wrote: post #481
zavi wrote: post #467

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like cheating.

I think clients are allowed to send whatever user agent they want - it's essentially a preference for how they would like the website rendered for them. Also I believe it's technically a violation of the HTTP spec to serve different GET requests to different user agents.

> I believe it's technically a violation of the HTTP spec to serve different GET requests to different user agents.

Is this actually true?

For what it's worth, Google serves a completely different webpage to IE 5 (try it, they still support IE 5/6/etc) as opposed to a modern browser.

That's just presentation and layout though. Am I really not allowed to send different document content to different UAs?

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by amingilani »

Grazester wrote: post #511
amingilani wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am proud to say that in 2008 my country knocked this puny website off the interwebs in a bid to censor it within the country. They accidentally hijacked the global IP addresses[0] I am also proud to say that my country left the domain for their original Internet Exchange Point[1] unregistered. Guess who scooped it up? PS. My country is Pakistan. [0]: https://www.cnet.com/news/how-pakistan-knocked-youtube-offli... […

Well everyone here seems mighty proud of censorship. Its too bad when Google themselves want to do it in China everyone loses their shit!

I guess the sarcasm in my original post wasn't obvious enough. But, yes، that was sarcasm۔

I'm also suing the Pakistani Federal Government to hand over a list of censored internet resources as part of a FOIA request. The hearing is tomorrow [0], wish me luck!

[0]: https://link.medium.com/RkevqMKY4Q

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by mito88 »

zaxomi wrote: post #395
mitchtbaum wrote: post #100

Watch "Let's de-Google-ify the Internet" on PeerTube https://peer.mathdacloud.ovh/videos/watch/c193a2f6-8b24-48c3... https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

When YouTube comes back up again, I can recommend Tom Scott with "Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q

damn!!!

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by mito88 »

DonaldFisk wrote: post #421
zaxomi wrote: post #395

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When YouTube comes back up again, I can recommend Tom Scott with "Single Point of Failure: The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4GB_NDU43Q

It's back up.

it's black!

:)

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by alpaca128 »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #469
voltagex_ wrote: post #452

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I hope you've got plans for what happens to that content when you're not around any more. With how ephemeral a lot of content is on YouTube there's sure to be valuable videos on people's drives.

I've had a lot of luck with finding YouTube videos that disappeared via archive.org

Unfortunately YouTube also deletes the title when a video is being removed. I regularly have a couple of "deleted video" entries in my favorites list and I don't have the slightest idea what these videos were about.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by DelightOne »

pkulak wrote: post #498
ReverseCold wrote: post #497

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(sorry for the sarcasm but...) Oh no! YouTube needs to store a few kb of text! How will they have enough space?

Well, it obviously only happens when something goes wrong. Seems valuable to keep the complexity and external dependencies of your error handing to a minimum.

Maybe its + a placebo since already stored in storage system + ability to see an outage maybe dropped in the filters cause it was assumed its not user-facing and so assumed lesser severity + assurance incase storage failed due to server-storage network unreachable
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