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So long as storage costs decrease exponentially I think they'll keep everything. Especially if the amount of content uploaded keeps going up, so the relative b

So long as storage costs decrease exponentially I think they'll keep everything. Especially if the amount of content uploaded keeps going up, so the relative benefit of deleting old stuff is small.

throwanem 2y ago
> So long as storage costs decrease exponentially I think they'll keep everything. I agree. That's why I've recently made a practice of backing up things to which I'd regret permanently losing access. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-computer-memory-and-storage https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-comput...
noAnswer 2y ago
Relatively recently they updated their policy. If you don't login to your account for two years they will delete everything. Source: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en I have two accounts from my youth with mostly fansubs and "funny" vids. (A "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day"-Video that, 11 years after its upload, got band in Pakistan.) It includes two very successful (over 1M views combined) uploads of political TV shows. I will not log in to this this accounts. So this stuff will get deleted. So in the long run, stuff will disappear from YT.
- Alphaeus 2y ago
  I believe YouTube content was explicitly exempted from that deletion.
  - noAnswer 2y ago
    You seem to be right. This Google Blog post[1] says "we do not have plans to delete accounts with YouTube videos at this time." [1] https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/updating-our-inactive-account-policies/ https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/updating-our-... Would be nice if they would write that into the actual policy and don't just add a random sentence to a blog post.
    - kipchak 2y ago
      If I remember right the original policy was to delete the YouTube videos and after pushback the YouTube exception was added.

So long as storage costs decrease exponentially I think they'll keep everything. Especially if the amount of content uploaded keeps going up, so the relative benefit of deleting old stuff is small.

throwanem 2y ago

> So long as storage costs decrease exponentially I think they'll keep everything. I agree. That's why I've recently made a practice of backing up things to which I'd regret permanently losing access. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-computer-memory-and-storage https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-comput...

noAnswer 2y ago

Relatively recently they updated their policy. If you don't login to your account for two years they will delete everything. Source: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en I have two accounts from my youth with mostly fansubs and "funny" vids. (A "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day"-Video that, 11 years after its upload, got band in Pakistan.) It includes two very successful (over 1M views combined) uploads of political TV shows. I will not log in to this this accounts. So this stuff will get deleted. So in the long run, stuff will disappear from YT.

Alphaeus 2y ago
I believe YouTube content was explicitly exempted from that deletion.
- noAnswer 2y ago
  You seem to be right. This Google Blog post[1] says "we do not have plans to delete accounts with YouTube videos at this time." [1] https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/updating-our-inactive-account-policies/ https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/updating-our-... Would be nice if they would write that into the actual policy and don't just add a random sentence to a blog post.
  - kipchak 2y ago
    If I remember right the original policy was to delete the YouTube videos and after pushback the YouTube exception was added.