Something at this link crashes both MobileSafari and iOS Firefox on my device.
The GitHub link? Works fine in Safari on my M4 iPad Pro.
Yup. Even after a device reboot at that time, too. Still doing it a half day later. Odd.
YouTube as Storage
111–120 of 163 posts
Re: YouTube as Storage
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is that some content creators have already passed away (and others will pass away by then), and their videos will likely be deleted forever.
Monuments erode away and memories of those enshrined are lost time as well, nothing lasts forever.
mono no aware
Re: YouTube as Storage
#113I imagine something like Reddit might make for better storage than this. It'd be pretty trivial to set up a few accounts with private subs too just store encrypted text based data. Not fast or anything but surely easier to work with.
Re: YouTube as Storage
#114Also, how to get your google account banned for abuse.
There are already channels with millions of AI-generated videos on them.
Re: YouTube as Storage
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
What they said only holds true because the growth continues so that the old volume of videos doesn't matter as much since there's so many more new ones each year compared to the previous year. So the question is more about whether or not it will hold true in the long term, not today
The framing here is really weird. The volume of videos increasing isn't 'growth.' Videos are inventory for Youtube. They're only good when people (without adblocks!) actually watch them.
Yes. a video no one watches is a waste of storage.
Re: YouTube as Storage
#116Thechnically cool, but ToS state: "Misuse of Service Restrictions - Purpose Restriction: The Service is intended for video viewing and sharing, not as a general-purpose, cloud-based file storage service." So they can rightfully delete your files.
Its interesting that this exact use case is already covered in their ToS. I wonder when the first YouTube as storage project came out, and how many there have been over the years.
I mean, it is pretty likely they figured out it could be a pretty obvious possible misuse before anyone actually started doing it.
Re: YouTube as Storage
#117Brilliant, but I hope it doesn't hasten Youtube's use of AI to "enhance" videos automatically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46169554
Re: YouTube as Storage
#118Interestingly, this is a specific implementation of a more general idea - leverage social media to store encrypted content, that requires decoding through a trusted app to surface the actual content.
AI tools can use this as a messaging service with deniability. Pretty sure humans already use it in this way. In the past, classifieds in newspapers were a similar messaging service with deniability.
Re: YouTube as Storage
#119Re: YouTube as Storage
#120Thechnically cool, but ToS state: "Misuse of Service Restrictions - Purpose Restriction: The Service is intended for video viewing and sharing, not as a general-purpose, cloud-based file storage service." So they can rightfully delete your files.
Its interesting that this exact use case is already covered in their ToS. I wonder when the first YouTube as storage project came out, and how many there have been over the years.
The idea of exploiting someone else's server to store files is incredibly old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMail_Drive
When Google launched Gmail (2004) with a huge 1GB storage quota, Richard Jones released GMailFS to mount a Gmail account as a standard block device.