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YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by metadat »

Could youtube-dlp and YouTube Vanced now be hosted on.. YouTube?

I wonder how long it'd take for Google to crack down on the system abuse.

Is it really abuse if the videos are viewable / playable? Presumably the ToS either already forbids covert channel encoding or soon will.

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by geoffeg »

This is great. I did something very similar with a laser printer and a scanner many years ago. I wrote a script that generated pages of colored blocks and spent some time figuring out how much redundancy I needed on each page to account for the scanner's resolution. I think I saw something similar here or on github a few years ago.

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Post by throwaway0a5e »

metadat wrote: post #2

Could youtube-dlp and YouTube Vanced now be hosted on.. YouTube? I wonder how long it'd take for Google to crack down on the system abuse. Is it really abuse if the videos are viewable / playable? Presumably the ToS either already forbids covert channel encoding or soon will.

>Is it really abuse if the videos are viewable / playable? Presumably the ToS either already forbids covert channel encoding or soon will.

If creators start encoding their source and material into their content Google would probably be fine with that because it gives them data but also gives them context for that data.

Edit: I meant like "director's commentary" and "notes about production" type stuff like you used to see added to DVDs back in the day. Not "using youtube as my personal file storage". Why is this such an unpopular opinion?

Re: YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos

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Post by Jimmc414 »

Very cool. I wonder how difficult it would be present a real watchable video to the viewer. Albeit low quality, but embed the file in a steganographic method. I think a risk of this tech is that if it takes off, YT might easily adjust the algorithms to remove unwatchable videos. Perhaps leaving a watchable video could grant it more persistence than an obvious data stream.
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