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It's been clear to me we're at the tail end of the golden age of online videos and I and many others have been furiously downloading in preparation for the inevitable.
More than anything I think the web of hyperlinks is dead. We have collectively decided that anything that isn't "news" isn't valuable, so the old web of interlocking hyperlinks has made way for a new web of content feeds. It makes me sad, too.
Are there any projects which scan public playlists for unlisted videos and archive them?
This makes me sad, I remember quite a few unlisted videos going around for one reason or the other over the years. Videos meant to be watched, mind. There's lots of old stuff on YouTube from long dead small channels. This stuff rots and disappears over time with nobody around to maintain it. I guess it's a good reminder that everything needs maintenance. Something similar, but much more dramatic, happened once they g…
It's been clear to me we're at the tail end of the golden age of online videos and I and many others have been furiously downloading in preparation for the inevitable.
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We've always been at war with Eastasia.
I love me a random 1984 reference… care to explain what’s wrong with honouring user requests to delete their data?
Also I seriously doubt that all those missing videos were requested to be deleted by the user. I'd be willing to bet that 90% of them were taken down by youtube's ridiculous and mostly broken takedown bots. There should be consequences for frivolous takedowns.
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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…
I'm a little skeptical of that, especially in the scenario that it's a "don't want to look at it much" situation. I've had VM's running for many, many years in an autoupgrade scenario, and it tends to just work. And the security risks are often overstated as long as you tried to minimize attack surface; so; for instance I for a while tried to track all related security issues - and at the very least 95% are irrelevan…
None of this is stuff the average company needs to deal with when youtube works just fine. I'm sure you can list out all the ways to avoid those listed problems but that just shows how much work and knowledge is needed to pull this off while anyone can use youtube.
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YouTube is probably a more reliably backup in the vast majority of cases than whatever internal backup the company would come up with.
How can anyone rely on a third party business to host content for free, forever? Just because it’s worked for years doesn’t make it so forever. The trust and reliance on Google for free video hosting seems both foolish and dangerous.
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YouTube is probably a more reliably backup in the vast majority of cases than whatever internal backup the company would come up with.
How can anyone rely on a third party business to host content for free, forever? Just because it’s worked for years doesn’t make it so forever. The trust and reliance on Google for free video hosting seems both foolish and dangerous.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm for a classic take on the subject.
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It's been clear to me we're at the tail end of the golden age of online videos and I and many others have been furiously downloading in preparation for the inevitable.
Not just videos, any online content is subject to loss. If you see something and like it, save it locally and back it up, whether its a video, image, text post, or an entire website.
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It's been clear to me we're at the tail end of the golden age of online videos and I and many others have been furiously downloading in preparation for the inevitable.
How? where do you save it all and how do you find the time?