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

Post by spoonjim » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 11:40 PM UTC

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…

Post by nevster » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 11:41 PM UTC

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_...

Post by BeFlatXIII » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 11:52 PM UTC

yoz-y wrote: post #60

brokenmachine wrote: post #52

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I have hundreds of missing videos in my various lists. I wish youtube would at least keep the title there so you know what it is that has been lost. Welcome to the alzheimic future.

That’s a feature. If somebody deletes their video then all of the metadata goes with it. I agree that it can be annoying but among other things, it’s the law.

Post by matbilodeau » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 11:55 PM UTC

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_...

Post by tartoran » Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 11:59 PM UTC

Causality1 wrote: post #34

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.

Yes. I always tell people that if they really love a YouTube video they need to archive it themselves. Tons and tons of content gets erased all the time for many different reasons. Just recently I found two of my favorite channels, popular around a decade ago, had deleted almost all their content because their jokes were too offensive for today's audience and they wanted to project a more mature aesthetic. That would…