I think it's mostly a good thing but it's Google so there must be an angle. Am I too jaded?
caching efficiency probably.
Or making private videos a paid feature?
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#12I think it's mostly a good thing but it's Google so there must be an angle. Am I too jaded?
Can they monetize the content that is being hidden? If not, perhaps that’s the answer.
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#13The opt-out process only takes 30 seconds.
The problem isn't the opt-out time, it's the lag time to identify that you need to opt out. That could be years, or (effectively) forever.
The creators might no longer be with us, to boot.
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#14I think it's mostly a good thing but it's Google so there must be an angle. Am I too jaded?
Reducing costs in storage/caching.
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#15So the reasoning makes it sound like there was potentially an exploit that made it easy to find unlisted videos? Were the video IDs deterministic perhaps?
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#16I need to move some of my early technical videos to Vimeo now. I never connected my pre-Google YouTube account to Google, and so I can't do anything with them. It's been over a year since I logged into Google, anyway.
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#17A related frustration for me is when I have random videos in my "watch later" list replaced with a gray square and a note saying the video is no longer unavailable or has been made private. Since I don't even get any details of what the video was (title/channel/description), I can't go find it elsewhere. It's like having a song deleted from a playlist silently. It makes me wonder if I should even rely on Google's features for this sort of thing, or maintain a list elsewhere.
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#18Seems reasonable tbh. even through it might "hit" some hidden and mostly forgotten gems.
Doesn't to me. Patreon tier-restricted videos, not to mention family shared videos, fall into this category, and not all creators are savy enough to know they need to do this.
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#19I need to move some of my early technical videos to Vimeo now. I never connected my pre-Google YouTube account to Google, and so I can't do anything with them. It's been over a year since I logged into Google, anyway.
Please share the URL! I always appreciate your hardware comments and would love to see what you've shared in video format.
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#20The thing that makes this fishy is that I also received an email for my Google Workspace organization about link sharing changing for Google Drive for a security update, and the date it initially takes effect is the same day at this YouTube thing, July 23.
https://support.google.com/a/answer/10685032?hl=en
Could something have happened across their entire Zanzibar/ ACL infrastructure?