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Links die. As long as the video exists, the files that the video uses will always exist.
by daenz 4y ago
Links die. As long as the video exists, the files that the video uses will always exist.
- cush 4y agoAs if videos don't die...
- alexb_ 4y agowell the point is the video and the file are linked - the video cannot exist without the file
- cush 4y agoThis is a classic case of overengineering a solution to a nonexistent problem. On YouTube, the video and the description are also linked. They exist on the same page always. And even if the concern this solution is covering is what if the video is somehow shared without the description, away from YouTube, then the video could just as easily contain the description or URL or QR code pointing to the file. This is a just horribly unusable QR code.
- alexb_ 4y agoThe description is not big enough to hold practically any data. You would need to link to it from there.... at which point the two are no longer linked into existence. Links go down insanely often.
- cush 4y agoI'm not saying embed the file I the description. Add a URL that points to the asset like we've been doing forever... This solves nothing.
- alexb_ 4y ago>add a URL that points This works really well until it doesn't. I have seen so, so, so many videos have linked content in the description that links to sites which don't work anymore.
- cush 4y ago> links to sites Wait so your expectation is that instead of Youtubers using URLs to link to websites, you would prefer and expect that they download and embed those websites into their videos for you? Like, a zip file of the whole site? For.... convenience? Have you considered using archive.org or mirrors instead? There are an infinite number of better solutions for this...
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