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Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users (www.theregister.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Who's going to wipe the old videos?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Google’s going to delete inactive google accounts. So if you see a channel whose last upload was six years ago, there’s a good chance it’s about to be deleted

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Thanks. I looked it up and read that Google decided according to the latest news they're not deleting YouTube accounts with video uploads. We'll see.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Oh I suppose my diseased father's small channel with a few of his live music performances will be deleted. Lovely.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

By the look of it they won't be but I would make an offline copy just to be safe. Maybe re-upload it on a newer account/website.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Save it bro to your cloud

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Goddamnit, I didn't even think about this when I saw they were doing the mass delete. Here's to hoping that they'll at least keep the videos up. Waaaay too much stuff on YT to lose it all. Anyone know if archive.org is backing them up?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Anyone know if archive.org is backing them up?

At this point you got to imagine that archives hardware infrastructure has to be as big or bigger than Google's.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Man this stuff should not be left to the hands of random corporations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I was just speaking towards server hardware and infrastructure, and their costs, and not making a value judgement on corps vs. not-corps.