I wonder if Google Takeout would have the content? Definitely try that. Also try a GDPR request. Not sure if that will work but that might get you a backup copy if they have it. If people have watched the videos recently there might be some local cache on their computers you can grab.
Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
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Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
#172Is there an effort to build a solution to problems like this that don't rely on a friend of a friend from Google 'fixing' things. At some point the FDA didn't exist and we decided to create it to regulate an industry. At some point, fair credit reporting didn't exist and we decided to create that to regulate a different industry. Is there a real and lasting solution to this problem that the firm hand of democracy can…
>Is there an effort to build a solution to problems like this that don't rely on a friend of a friend from Google 'fixing' things.
I know It is easy to say to own your own things / Video. In reality a reliable storage system is not easy nor cheap. A BTRFS / ZFS system that is Turn Key solution with drive redundancy and error correction by default. And that is ignoring other things like security.
My dream solution would be something like an Apple TimeCapsule that also works for iOS. And may be a bundled subscription that give you offsite backup and snapshots.
Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
#173After seeing posts like this on HN for years, this one officially scared me enough to completely migrate off Gmail altogether. I’m in the process right now of removing my gmail from any online account. Pro-tip: if you use a password manager, it’s as easy as searching for your Gmail address. For all other accounts, I’ve been able to find them by searching for the phrases “verify your email” or “verify email” or “verif…
This somehow reminds me of Yahoo. The fall of Yahoo starts with people stopped using Yahoo Mail and went to Gmail.
Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t think this analogy is correct. Instead, I’d say the analogous case is more like loaning your art to a gallery. The gallery makes a profit from the thousands of people who pay to view the art that you provided at your own expense. Then, one day someone at the gallery decides that the art contains something that doesn’t look right. Maybe it’s a peach, in the background, that looks like a butt. So, to resolve th…
Bad analogy. Better would be that you have taken nice picture. You give this to art-gallery to show. As it is all digital they get a copy. And then you think oh art-gallery has it I can destroy my original. And then art-gallery thinks that it is not needed anymore and copy really has no extra value and destroys it. The fault is not with gallery destroying copy, but with destruction of the original.
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Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
#175After seeing posts like this on HN for years, this one officially scared me enough to completely migrate off Gmail altogether. I’m in the process right now of removing my gmail from any online account. Pro-tip: if you use a password manager, it’s as easy as searching for your Gmail address. For all other accounts, I’ve been able to find them by searching for the phrases “verify your email” or “verify email” or “verif…
> it’s as easy as searching for your Gmail address
And then taking a week off of work so that I can change 672 passwords.
Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
#176After seeing posts like this on HN for years, this one officially scared me enough to completely migrate off Gmail altogether. I’m in the process right now of removing my gmail from any online account. Pro-tip: if you use a password manager, it’s as easy as searching for your Gmail address. For all other accounts, I’ve been able to find them by searching for the phrases “verify your email” or “verify email” or “verif…
Just gonna throw Migadu in here as a mail host. Everyone loves Fastmail, which is cool - I'm an ex-happy-user - but Migadu's point of difference is their pricing.
Whereas Fastmail charges by the user/month (or did when I was there), which can add up quickly if you've got a bunch of domains, Migadu does not. They charge by volume. You can add as many domains and mailboxes as you like. For some use cases - mine, and likely many of you - that ends up with a way smaller bill.
They're run by real people in Switzerland. I've been a customer for a couple of years now and it's worked flawlessly.
Usual disclaimers, just a happy customer, not affiliated.
Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
#177After seeing posts like this on HN for years, this one officially scared me enough to completely migrate off Gmail altogether. I’m in the process right now of removing my gmail from any online account. Pro-tip: if you use a password manager, it’s as easy as searching for your Gmail address. For all other accounts, I’ve been able to find them by searching for the phrases “verify your email” or “verify email” or “verif…
Just gonna throw Migadu in here as a mail host. Everyone loves Fastmail, which is cool - I'm an ex-happy-user - but Migadu's point of difference is their pricing. Whereas Fastmail charges by the user/month (or did when I was there), which can add up quickly if you've got a bunch of domains, Migadu does not. They charge by volume. You can add as many domains and mailboxes as you like. For some use cases - mine, and li…
Note that if you're just using the domains for one user, you can set them up as aliases rather than seperate mailboxes to avoid stacking fees that way.
Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
#178As the saying goes, if you're not paying, you are the product.
There are so many ways that "a few hundred internal training videos" could violate YouTube policy I'm just going to assume you were violating policy and didn't know it.
In other words, the "always have a back-up of anything important you store in a free Google account" people are 100% correct.
Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
#179Happens with other companies too. My partner currently has their twitter account locked for "evading a ban".
The thing is it is their main account, under their own name, used regularly to post non-controversial stuff (and their other accounts(not locked) are even more boring). No indication of what ban they are trying to avoid even. Their only weird thing they are doing is using VPNs sometimes.
They have filed an appeal but it has been a week and no feedback of any kind.
Re: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
#180After seeing posts like this on HN for years, this one officially scared me enough to completely migrate off Gmail altogether. I’m in the process right now of removing my gmail from any online account. Pro-tip: if you use a password manager, it’s as easy as searching for your Gmail address. For all other accounts, I’ve been able to find them by searching for the phrases “verify your email” or “verify email” or “verif…
> it’s as easy as searching for your Gmail address And then taking a week off of work so that I can change 672 passwords.
I thought it was going to be a huge hassle (I too imagined I had hundreds of accounts), but for me there were less than 30 accounts I actually cared about. Basically credit cards, banking, airlines, government services, social accounts, FAANG accounts, and domains/hosting. Annoying, but only took about an hour and a half.
The rest that are non-important I'll just let languish in the Gmail account, assuming I'll be able to go back and get them if needed, yet, also not being heartbroken if I get screwed by some faceless algorithm like OP.