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Recalling mr.Stallman. This is a good reminder about what can happen with all of your online projects/ data/disk storage/letters/photos/notes once it stops working ...I never stored things online.
I would hope most content creators aren't using Youtube as a primary storage medium. It's not as if the site forces them to delete their original copy after uploading, after all.
Downdetector seems like a great place to advertise. You have a bunch of people who were forced to abandon the provider of whatever type of service that your company may offer. What a great opportunity to show customers your competing product.
Maybe for other types of service yes, I find difficult to plug a alternative to YouTube, other type of streaming services maybe? Netlfix etc
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given that the outage affects redirector.googlevideo.com and youtube.com/get_video_info, but as you say, not the f3--- .googlevideo.com domains serving the actual streams, i suspect they have problems with the database storing where streams are actually hosted.
In other words, the metadata service. The actual content servers are still up, so provided you know where the content is, you can still access it. (Does anyone still remember when you could easily download videos from YT by simply replacing "watch" with "get_video" in the URL? I miss those days... when corporate greed hadn't gotten to where it is today.)
But it makes it hard to download, unless you stitch all that on the receiving end, something that youtube-dl does.
Greed and etc. were already piled on top of that with DRM, obfuscation and the like.
Down in New Zealand. Perhaps a failed algorithm update with the intention of breaking youtube-dl?
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In other words, the metadata service. The actual content servers are still up, so provided you know where the content is, you can still access it. (Does anyone still remember when you could easily download videos from YT by simply replacing "watch" with "get_video" in the URL? I miss those days... when corporate greed hadn't gotten to where it is today.)
DASH isn't driven by greed really, it simply allows flexibly and seamlessly switching audio and video streams to vary quality. You can change resolution, and it still plays things continuously for you. But it makes it hard to download, unless you stitch all that on the receiving end, something that youtube-dl does. Greed and etc. were already piled on top of that with DRM, obfuscation and the like.
Darn, needed to watch Tucker Carlson.