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Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Is this actually happening? Because it makes little sense when you consider that YouTube-parent Google is sponsoring security education videos. See this GCP-sponsored LiveOverflow video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-P9USG6kLs

Maybe Google's killing off dodgy script kiddie vids, and leaving quality content up (and I mean the rest of LiverOverflow's videos et al, not just the paid-for stuff.)

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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Is this actually happening? Because it makes little sense when you consider that YouTube-parent Google is sponsoring security education videos. See this GCP-sponsored LiveOverflow video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-P9USG6kLs Maybe Google's killing off dodgy script kiddie vids, and leaving quality content up (and I mean the rest of LiverOverflow's videos et al, not just the paid-for stuff.)

I think this came up months ago and it was clarified it was just a mistake, not an actually policy. Google didn't actually ban educational videos, but people drew conclusions from Twitter and assumed the worst against reason.

Reddit comments seems to confirm that this is just fear mongering at this point, and the OP should know by now what happened.

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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This is the consequence of monopolies. Before YouTube gobbled up the world there were great, niche video sites ran by fans of the coolest things. They are mostly gone now. It is sad. The web really used to be an adventure. I miss that part of the internet. You felt like you found these secret underground worlds where people were really into something. Now it’s different. Maybe what we have now it what is needed for c…

It's all going to consolidate into two or three services as well. It's going to get really boring. The web we used to know and love is dead.

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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This is the consequence of monopolies. Before YouTube gobbled up the world there were great, niche video sites ran by fans of the coolest things. They are mostly gone now. It is sad. The web really used to be an adventure. I miss that part of the internet. You felt like you found these secret underground worlds where people were really into something. Now it’s different. Maybe what we have now it what is needed for c…

Does YT have a quantifiable monopoly it abuses in an economic sense?

Or of your attention?

I find a lot of similar content as text & video not hosted on YT via DDG search

The content is still out there. Google chose not to host it on their servers.

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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This is the consequence of monopolies. Before YouTube gobbled up the world there were great, niche video sites ran by fans of the coolest things. They are mostly gone now. It is sad. The web really used to be an adventure. I miss that part of the internet. You felt like you found these secret underground worlds where people were really into something. Now it’s different. Maybe what we have now it what is needed for c…

Exploration vs exploitation.

Initially all businesses are trying to figure out how to make money by quickly exploring possible business ideas. That's when the most fun but also most start-up tragedies happen. Once some revenue stream is found, the company can start growing, getting into collaborative phase, where it is viewed as a super cool place and most people inside can change things. At some point business opportunities get exhausted, other measures need to be put in place, company grows too big for everybody to have a voice; bureaucracy and formalism sets in, company starts to be perceived as losing its edge and being stale, optimizing for its core profit, exploiting as much as it can and stopping most of the exploration. Innovative people move on to other spaces allowing exploration, reliable business types move in.

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

#18

This is the consequence of monopolies. Before YouTube gobbled up the world there were great, niche video sites ran by fans of the coolest things. They are mostly gone now. It is sad. The web really used to be an adventure. I miss that part of the internet. You felt like you found these secret underground worlds where people were really into something. Now it’s different. Maybe what we have now it what is needed for c…

It's all going to consolidate into two or three services as well. It's going to get really boring. The web we used to know and love is dead.

We may see a lot of web 1.0 ideas renewed/reinvented in the "Web 3.0" world. I'm hopeful distributed computing will make the web feel like the Wild West again.

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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That’s really sad! Censoring informative content should never be part of any corporate strategy, especially in countries having freedom in their constitution. Have a look at PeerTube ( https://joinpeertube.org ) if you don’t know it yet.

Self-hosting PeerTube is trivial. So is self-hosting NextCloud (DropBox alternative). So is self-hosting PixelFed (Instagram alternative). So is self-hosting Mastodon, RocketChat, Code-Server (VSCode) etc. Rent a $5/month VPS and have 100% control over what you publish and federate with like-minded as you like. At some point those services will support 90% of all monopoly features and 99% features you care about. If you are worried about some unwanted illegal content coming in from federated users, it's trivial to get Deep Learning filters to remove 99% of unwanted content (e.g. porn) as well. You can decide the rules.

Re: YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

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This is the consequence of monopolies. Before YouTube gobbled up the world there were great, niche video sites ran by fans of the coolest things. They are mostly gone now. It is sad. The web really used to be an adventure. I miss that part of the internet. You felt like you found these secret underground worlds where people were really into something. Now it’s different. Maybe what we have now it what is needed for c…

High speed internet is better and more available than ever before. Storage is also much cheaper than before youtube came along. If it could happen back then, it can happen much easier now.
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