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I 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 t
by brokenmachine 5y ago
I 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.
- brokenmachine 5y agoIn my opinion, once the video is added to my list, at least the name should become my data. Also I seriously doubt that all those missing videos were requested to be deleted by the user. I'd be willing to bet that 90% of them were taken down by youtube's ridiculous and mostly broken takedown bots. There should be consequences for frivolous takedowns.
- tartoran 5y agoYep. If this worked properly and the metadata went out with the video so should the entry. The blank entry is absolutely useless