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You probably can, but the people who are tasked with delivering training videos likely do not have the technical ability to do so.

Sound like they do not have the skills or tools needed to do their job.

They do, they made a training video and put it on youtube. Now after years of benefiting from that for free they have to press a button to make it keep working like it always has. Seems like a pretty good and reliable setup.

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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.

There absolutely is, place it on company google drive! You will even have real access control!

Shouldn't it be a self hosted server?

The Google drive could be deprecated at any moment

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Maybe critical training materials should not be published to YouTube?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.

There is no better way to provide video content with a text document than to link to youtube

That may be the best "free" way, but my company puts their training videos up on some training website. The site tracks which videos were watched and sends nag emails when required trainings are late.

So if you're putting up content that your employees are obligated to watch, there are better alternatives than Youtube.

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

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There absolutely is, place it on company google drive! You will even have real access control!

Shouldn't it be a self hosted server? The Google drive could be deprecated at any moment

The chance of your self hosted server going down, being hacked, catching fire, etc is infinitely more likely than google drive being shut down so fast you can't switch to something else.

At this point the advice is moving towards "Don't even have a video if you can't be bothered designing a CPU from scratch to host it on".

Keep a local backup by all means but it's far more likely the local copy will get lost than the google drive copy.

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

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You’re training users to click a “you have a notification” email that’s not easy to verify is legit.

You're training users to not click a link in an email, but rather log in from your homepage.

It has a big “click here” button - at least this email did.

Yea better is to tell them to go login and provide no links.

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

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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…

That sounds extremely feasible to me. One of the companies i used to work for will definitely have a bunch of their training videos lost this way, and it's totally reasonable to believe that a new hire for the warehouse would not bother telling anyone that the video wouldn't play. I don't know that any real injury will result from this, but i wouldn't call the scenario absurd

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

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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?

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

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Maybe critical training materials should not be published to YouTube?

There was a time, when YouTube was seen as free and open as Wikipedia.

There was a very long time when YouTube bled absolutely incredible amounts of money.

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

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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

Who says germans don't have a sense of humor (OK my austrian friends do, but you know those austrians...)
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