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That's unfortunate. I have a few videos which seems to have been forgotten even by their uploaders. Those videos would probably not be updated. I guess I need t
by barosl 5y ago
That's unfortunate. I have a few videos which seems to have been forgotten even by their uploaders. Those videos would probably not be updated. I guess I need to back them up manually.
- Causality1 5y agoYes. I always tell people that if they really love a YouTube video they need to archive it themselves. Tons and tons of content gets erased all the time for many different reasons. Just recently I found two of my favorite channels, popular around a decade ago, had deleted almost all their content because their jokes were too offensive for today's audience and they wanted to project a more mature aesthetic. That would've been a huge chunk of my early adulthood gone forever if I hadn't already had copies of all their videos.
- tartoran 5y agoAbsolutely! Think of a channel getting wiped out for a fake copyright infringement and you could have dozens of videos (if not more) wiped out
- Ruthalas 5y agoIf you feel like chatting with others who also archive youtube content, consider stopping by my discord server: https://discord.gg/EJvS4kf https://discord.gg/EJvS4kf We maintain a list [1] of content that various members have archived, such that when content is removed from youtube, people can direct inquiries to contributors who have archived that content. It's a small way to keep track of what things have been successfully archived, and occasionally direct efforts to preserve specific content- like unlisted videos right now. [1] https://tinyurl.com/v4rpe9w https://tinyurl.com/v4rpe9w
- bmurphy1976 5y agoI have one video in my favorites that is marked as unavailable. This drives me crazy I'll never know what that video was. I only have a couple videos in my favorites and every single one of them is important to me. If you can back them up.
- brokenmachine 5y agoI have hundreds of missing videos in my various lists. I wish youtube would at least keep the title there so you know what it is that has been lost. Welcome to the alzheimic future.
- yoz-y 5y agoThat’s a feature. If somebody deletes their video then all of the metadata goes with it. I agree that it can be annoying but among other things, it’s the law.
- BeFlatXIII 5y ago> it’s the law Where? Other sites keep the metadata (and even allow new comments on) deleted posts.
- yoz-y 5y agoGDPR text asks to delete all data for which the user withdraws consent to share. IANAL but that seems telling. When a user asks to delete a video it’s deleted, with it goes the title and description.
- brokenmachine 5y agoWe've always been at war with Eastasia.
- yoz-y 5y agoI love me a random 1984 reference… care to explain what’s wrong with honouring user requests to delete their data?
- rozab 5y agoThe idea that all or most of these missing videos are due to GDPR deletion requests is completely incorrect. They are almost all from spurious copyright takedown requests. YouTube has no legal obligation to automatically honor these, and it certainly doesn't have to delete all associated metadata. Framing this issue as an instance of YouTube being respectful of their users data is ridiculous.
- globular-toast 5y agoThis is what I use youtubedl for. I don't trust Google to keep stuff I'm interested in available forever.
- james-skemp 5y agoOr uploaders who have died and may have unlisted videos and linked to them in descriptions or comments. I don't recall the creator, but I do recall a video series that used links in the videos that pointed to other videos for a basic quiz or choose your own adventure.
- Foomf 5y agoJacksfilms did that once.
- flyingfences 5y agoVlogBrothers did a sort of YouTube game show series that way some years ago.
- _carbyau_ 5y agoData you don't have in at least two places, is data you don't want. This applies to logical places on the internet too. Of course, you don't need to keep a copy of everything you see on the internet. But if you have a dependency you might want a copy. wget was the thing back then, maybe something similar with youtube-dl now?
- syshum 5y agoHonestly I have been doing this with all kinds of content, if I ever reference it to make a point, use it to understand a topic, etc I have a local backup of the video, webpage etc. Too many times I have gone back to reference something only for the site to be dead, or the user been banned from the platform.
- sen 5y agoFor many years now I "favourite" videos on YT by downloading them. You can't expect any video on YT to still be there tomorrow/later.