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I'd consider Youtube to be one of the top easiest sites to get one's data (or someone else's!) out of. Why do you think it's not?
by dmd 9y ago
I'd consider Youtube to be one of the top easiest sites to get one's data (or someone else's!) out of. Why do you think it's not?
- glenneroo 9y agoDo you mean downloading using unsupported 3rd party tools? Because those have to be regularly updated to ensure they even work and could some day stop working entirely if Google decided to care about blocking such tools. In comparison, GitHub offers a simple clone button (among ways) which gives you everything.
- dmd 9y agoNo, I mean Google.com/takeout
- Benjamin_Dobell 9y agoThat only helps you backup your own data. Github (or rather Git) facilitates distributed backup.
- glenneroo 9y agoI just did a complete takeout - it doesn't download videos, only history, comments, playlists and subscriptions (in various formats: json, html, etc).
- dmd 9y agoThen you did something wrong or didn't pick the right export options. I do a download of mine every 3 months, and it works fine.
- dawnerd 9y agoYoutube-dl? I mean I get your argument but op isn’t wrong. YouTube is reallly easy to rip content from.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoAnd the point of that argument is that youtube-dl only works because Google doesn't care, and the need to patch it regularly is only caused by the incidental changes in the service. When Google starts caring for some reason, it'll be a difficult battle.
- akoncius 9y agoit could be easy to rip, but exact word "rip" is indicating that you are going against service provider's SLA. Meanwhile GitHub is providing tools (git) to get, share content which fits in their SLA.
- amelius 9y ago1. It's not legal (see ToS). 2. Google can block it any moment, or inject ads. 3. You don't get the original data, but a transcoded version. And/or a watermarked version. In contrast, GitHub is intended to download data from, so above points will never apply.