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Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

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Post by antoniuschan99 »

implying wrote: post #3

As useless and pithy it is to say "just restore from backup", having your livelihood (or a significant time investment) depend on a system far outside of your control, where you have no service guarantees or even a billable relationship, is a fairly shaky ground to stand on. Ultimately if you spend your time producing digital assets, you should have taken action to ensure you had ownership and control over them somew…

I hope she can recover those videos. Aside from not backing up initially, I’m also wondering why or if she did anything after getting those 3 strike warnings :$

Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

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Post by isatty »

smoldesu wrote: post #2

> youtube deleted 700 videos created for internal training for our company I don't mean to be an asshole, but nobody guarantees you that your videos will stay up perpetually on YouTube. Especially if you've got hundreds of private or unlisted videos, it doesn't particularly surprise me that YouTube would pull them down, even if only for petty reasons. If you've been following the state of their website over the past…

I think they know that, there’s no need to repeat the obvious just because it will make ourselves feel better.

People fuck up, it’s just a matter of when, and when we do it’s better to help and hope that some day you’ll be helped in turn.

Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

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Post by rectang »

Lots of commenters rushing to chastise the user for not taking pro-active steps to preserve content, since your Google account (or any cloud account once a provider decides you've violated their Terms of Service) may go "poof".

Wouldn't it be nice if the platforms themselves helped out with this, instead of luring their users into a false sense of security?

Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

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Post by rco8786 »

smoldesu wrote: post #2

> youtube deleted 700 videos created for internal training for our company I don't mean to be an asshole, but nobody guarantees you that your videos will stay up perpetually on YouTube. Especially if you've got hundreds of private or unlisted videos, it doesn't particularly surprise me that YouTube would pull them down, even if only for petty reasons. If you've been following the state of their website over the past…

> "the cloud" isn't a panacea for your storage needs.

Except that is exactly how cloud companies market themselves. That is exactly what cloud companies have been telling consumers for a decade+.

Right up to the point of commercials showing someone lose a device and saying “no worries, it’s all in the cloud!”, etc. We’ve been told for years that our data is safer in the cloud than it is on our own devices. That the cloud itself IS the backup system.

Normal people didn’t just arrive at this conclusion on their own. They were fed it directly from the companies that we are all now supposed to just innately understand are not to be trusted with our data.

Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

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Post by Ekaros »

kozziollek wrote: post #6

Was her Youtube account removed or whole Google account? I might need to rethink uploading my Factorio speedruns to YT...

As long as they are public, there is probably no problems. Though I'm not sure how they respond to low popularity content.

Still, safest option might be to use unconnected account for it.

Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

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Post by thehonest »

smoldesu wrote: post #2

> youtube deleted 700 videos created for internal training for our company I don't mean to be an asshole, but nobody guarantees you that your videos will stay up perpetually on YouTube. Especially if you've got hundreds of private or unlisted videos, it doesn't particularly surprise me that YouTube would pull them down, even if only for petty reasons. If you've been following the state of their website over the past…

Horrible answer but 100% correct.

Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

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Post by Ekaros »

rectang wrote: post #15

Lots of commenters rushing to chastise the user for not taking pro-active steps to preserve content, since your Google account (or any cloud account once a provider decides you've violated their Terms of Service) may go "poof". Wouldn't it be nice if the platforms themselves helped out with this, instead of luring their users into a false sense of security?

It would. I hope people here work towards their companies regularly warning their customers that any content stored on their services can be gone any day without any warning.
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