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https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9230970?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9230970?hl=en

• rkagerer 5y ago
  What's the difference between the old and newer, more secure URL's for unlisted videos? eg. More entropy?
  • Dylan16807 5y ago
    Any entropy at all. Supposedly the old ones were an encrypted counter, so if that key had gotten loose it would have been bad.
    • londons_explore 5y ago
      The key did get loose. Thousands of engineers had access to it and it showed up on dark corners of the internet for sale. A bunch of my unlisted videos got more view counts than they ought to have had, so I think abuse of it was pretty widespread.
  • fshbbdssbbgdd 5y ago
    Probably a bunch of people got promoted for making the new URL and nobody was going to get promoted for maintaining the old one