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Post by wccrawford »

jackson1442 wrote: post #25
falcolas wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Did they send an email to affected accounts? There seems to be a logical reason for this (newer unlisted videos have a more secure url generator), so I’d say this is neutral at worst.

I received an email from YT about unlisted "playlists", and they even gave me a link which showed me which playlists would be affected. Everything was very clearly laid out in the email.

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Post by SilverRed »

newsclues wrote: post #49
btown wrote: post #31

A welcome move for individuals who may have embarrassing content as Unlisted links. Future politicians will thank you. But... this will hit B2B product training and product marketing libraries hard . Many companies I've seen have help pages with embedded or linked videos for features not updated in years, and many of those embeds are Unlisted videos so that they're only seen in the context of their help article, not…

Maybe critical training materials should not be published to YouTube?

There is no better way to provide video content with a text document than to link to youtube. Sure they should have a private backup but until youtube stops working well like it has for a decade, it's still more reliable than any self hosted setup a company would build.

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Post by pyromaker »

Animats wrote: post #16

I 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.

We've been working on a tool called Pyro to move our videos to a different platform

https://www.pyro.app

Also our goal was to create our own video community. Might be an option for others who are thinking about something similar.

Re: “Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you opt out”

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Post by andrewzah »

fudged71 wrote: post #74

Intentional link rot. Am I supposed to go through all my old bookmarks and saves to see what to download?

What's stopping you from downloading videos you care about in the first place? It's not that hard to have youtube-dl batch download playlists, which is what I do.

Re: “Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you opt out”

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Post by giantrobot »

bmurphy1976 wrote: post #35
barosl wrote: post #2

That's unfortunate. I have a few videos which seems to have been forgotten even by their uploaders. Those videos would probably not be updated. I guess I need to back them up manually.

I have one video in my favorites that is marked as unavailable. This drives me crazy I'll never know what that video was. I only have a couple videos in my favorites and every single one of them is important to me. If you can back them up.

I despise the memory hole Google dumps things into. As far as YouTube is concerned a deleted video might as well never have existed.

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Post by jerryoftheyear »

xxpor wrote: post #46
judge2020 wrote: post #20

The 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?

I completely thought the email I got for this (for my personal Google app domain) was a phishing attempt. Why couldn't they have included the text in the email rather than some generic sketchy "You have a notification" nonsense?

Yeah this one was pretty bad, I had the same reaction.

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Post by neartheplain »

daniellarusso wrote: post #69
randrews wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So your complaint is that a company might have put a forklift training video on youtube, as an unlisted video, have then forgotten the password to change it, then will hire someone and tell them to watch it, that person won't be able to and will then not tell anyone else that fact, and after all that they might then hurt themselves with a forklift? At what point is a hypothetical harmful scenario too absurd to care a…

This is the best forklift training video I have seen: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forklift_Driver_Klaus_–_The_...

YouTube link (not unlisted):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAHzP4umE4M

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Post by roughly »

randrews wrote: post #63
btown wrote: post #31

A welcome move for individuals who may have embarrassing content as Unlisted links. Future politicians will thank you. But... this will hit B2B product training and product marketing libraries hard . Many companies I've seen have help pages with embedded or linked videos for features not updated in years, and many of those embeds are Unlisted videos so that they're only seen in the context of their help article, not…

So your complaint is that a company might have put a forklift training video on youtube, as an unlisted video, have then forgotten the password to change it, then will hire someone and tell them to watch it, that person won't be able to and will then not tell anyone else that fact, and after all that they might then hurt themselves with a forklift? At what point is a hypothetical harmful scenario too absurd to care a…

> At what point is a hypothetical harmful scenario too absurd to care about?

They’re YouTube. At their scale, there’s no such thing as an “edge case.”

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Post by roughly »

newsclues wrote: post #49
btown wrote: post #31

A welcome move for individuals who may have embarrassing content as Unlisted links. Future politicians will thank you. But... this will hit B2B product training and product marketing libraries hard . Many companies I've seen have help pages with embedded or linked videos for features not updated in years, and many of those embeds are Unlisted videos so that they're only seen in the context of their help article, not…

Maybe critical training materials should not be published to YouTube?

Maybe! But they were.
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