Ask HN: YouTube down? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by ddtaylor » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 3:50 AM UTC

zavi wrote: post #467

walrus01 wrote: post #300

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Or maybe I'm using an extension like this, and am pretending to be a Ubuntu+Firefox user so that they get their commission money from Google --> Mozilla, indirectly funding them. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/uaswitcher/

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.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by hindsightRegret » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 3:56 AM UTC

corodra wrote: post #102

Are we going to start a betting pool as to why? I put $20 on DDoS, but I'm hedging $5 that someone spilled their drink on something important and quickly got out of there before anyone noticed.

Metadata querying I imagine. The search was working, buffered videos and main site were loading, just not displaying videos. (so not network)

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by ASalazarMX » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 4:00 AM UTC

kevingrahl wrote: post #425

ASalazarMX wrote: post #363

Right now the front page loaded, but no video played and a refresh went back to just placeholders.

The UI is generated client-side

I meant it loaded completely, thumbnails and descriptions. It came back shortly after my comment and has responded as fast as ever since.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by textfiles » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 4:04 AM UTC

kevingrahl wrote: post #471

Rebelgecko wrote: post #469

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

Glad you mentioned that! I just recently checked my collection to see which videos aren’t available anymore online. I should probably cross check the results with Archive to see if they have them available!

I would love to have videos verified as no longer available.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by earenndil » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 4:12 AM UTC

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #183

corodra wrote: post #102

Are we going to start a betting pool as to why? I put $20 on DDoS, but I'm hedging $5 that someone spilled their drink on something important and quickly got out of there before anyone noticed.

> I put $20 on DDoS I'd take you on that, except I have no anonymized payment account. Otherwise, I'd bet $100 that it's not. Only Google has the scale to DDoS Google.

Maybe. Netflix is on the same order of magnitude. China has many websites whose volume is not much smaller than google.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by kevingrahl » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 4:28 AM UTC

entropie wrote: post #478

kevingrahl wrote: post #470

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I actually do have plans for that in place! I’ve got two identical servers, one will go to The Internet Archive and the other one should go to some German archive but I haven’t decided which one, still looking around. I have a script in place that deletes all private data off of those servers before and instructed two friends and some family members on how to proceed. Of course I don’t just hoard YouTube videos.. The…

I know a kevingrahl from gradeschool in leipzig. Interesting comment, but thats the only thing I have to say. Are you a ginger by any chance? ;)

Nope but that could be someone from my extended family.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by jhabdas » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 4:29 AM UTC

ASalazarMX wrote: post #259

bepvte wrote: post #233

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Opened it up, saw a foot fetish video on the front page.

It's like old Youtube then.

Not until it learns your specific for fetish them shows your kids on NewPipe.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by kevingrahl » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 4:29 AM UTC

textfiles wrote: post #484

kevingrahl wrote: post #471

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Glad you mentioned that! I just recently checked my collection to see which videos aren’t available anymore online. I should probably cross check the results with Archive to see if they have them available!

I would love to have videos verified as no longer available.

As soon as I figure out how to check them I’ll be sure to send them over to you!

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by css » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 4:32 AM UTC

First thing I see on their Twitter page are fake verified Youtube accounts perpetuating some Crypto scam: https://i.imgur.com/PkEbjH5.png

Re: Ask HN: YouTube down?

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Post by kevingrahl » Wed, Oct 17, 2018, 4:33 AM UTC

voltagex_ wrote: post #474

kevingrahl wrote: post #470

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I actually do have plans for that in place! I’ve got two identical servers, one will go to The Internet Archive and the other one should go to some German archive but I haven’t decided which one, still looking around. I have a script in place that deletes all private data off of those servers before and instructed two friends and some family members on how to proceed. Of course I don’t just hoard YouTube videos.. The…

Talk to Jason Scott at archive.org. Those taken down videos could be uploaded now for safekeeping

I just have to figure out how to check which ones already are on Archive. But I’ll absolutely do that!