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Seems reasonable tbh. even through it might "hit" some hidden and mostly forgotten gems.
by dathinab 5y ago
Seems reasonable tbh. even through it might "hit" some hidden and mostly forgotten gems.
- varispeed 5y agoNow I regret not saving at least a list of links of some of the videos :( How people who died are supposed to tick the box :/
- anfilt 5y agoI was thinking the same not everyone is sadly still around to make sure their content does not go basically poof.
- falcolas 5y agoDoesn't to me. Patreon tier-restricted videos, not to mention family shared videos, fall into this category, and not all creators are savy enough to know they need to do this.
- jackson1442 5y agoDid they send an email to affected accounts? There seems to be a logical reason for this (newer unlisted videos have a more secure url generator), so I’d say this is neutral at worst.
- MauranKilom 5y agoSome of my videos would be affected and I got an email from them. Seems reasonable to me. Of course, there is probably a large number of currently unlisted videos from accounts that are no longer active, which would effectively be lost after this change. Unfortunate.
- jackson1442 5y agoIt'd be interesting if Google had made this only apply to accounts that have had activity in, say, the last six months. If an account logs in and was skipped due to inactivity, it would then be appropriate to prompt them for their decision. That, of course, requires significantly more engineering so I can see why it didn't happen.
- wccrawford 5y agoI received an email from YT about unlisted "playlists", and they even gave me a link which showed me which playlists would be affected. Everything was very clearly laid out in the email.