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Post by cmrdporcupine »

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_...

"Although the film is not officially part of the German training and education system for forklift trucks, it is frequently shown by instructors to lighten the mood."

I was born in the wrong country.

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

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Post by QuercusMax »

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?

Seems highly unlikely to me (a Google engineer who works on systems that use Zanzibar / Cloud IAM) that this is a result of anything other than a change in policy.

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

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Post by CydeWeys »

giantrobot wrote: post #76
bmurphy1976 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The alternative, that Google doesn't delete stuff that people want deleted, is worse. They can't win either way.

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

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Post by laurent123456 »

SilverRed wrote: post #72
newsclues wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That may have been true, but these days can't you just put the video on S3 or any storage and play it using the tag?

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

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Post by qbasic_forever »

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_...

I know I would be an impeccably safe forklift operator after watching Klaus' training video. :)

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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_...

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

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Post by assballsmcgee »

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?

coperate video training platforms are mega dumpster fires caked in the legacy user experience crust you would expect.youtube ends up being the best, most user friendly platform for companies to upload videos to. not to mention its free so "why spend money on this platform or spin up resources for self-hosted infra when this is free?"

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

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Post by syshum »

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.

Honestly I have been doing this with all kinds of content, if I ever reference it to make a point, use it to understand a topic, etc I have a local backup of the video, webpage etc.

Too many times I have gone back to reference something only for the site to be dead, or the user been banned from the platform.

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

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Post by climb_stealth »

rib3ye wrote: post #56
bmurphy1976 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Does youtube-dl support playlists?

Oh yes it does! It is amazing. With the `--download-archive` option you can specify a text file where it stores which videos it already downloaded. So you can periodically make backups of your playlists without unnecessarily downloading videos that you already have.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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