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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] 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.