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If a video is set to private, doesn't that mean that knowing the link won't work unless I'm signed into the right account?
by exikyut 2y ago
If a video is set to private, doesn't that mean that knowing the link won't work unless I'm signed into the right account?
- crazygringo 2y agoEdit: never mind, I've been corrected below, sorry. (Original wrong comment follows for context.) --- No, YouTube has no concept of authorized viewers the way Google Docs/Drive does. YouTube private videos only need the URL.
- Insanity 2y agoI don’t think that’s accurate. YouTube has “unlisted” and “private”. What you refer to is unlisted. Private is only for the owner of the video.
- ars 2y agoAnd also for anyone you explicitly share it with, they have to be logged in.
- kalleboo 2y agoYou're thinking of "unlisted". There is also a "private" option where you can invite people by Google Account that they have to be logged into.
- jasonjayr 2y agoThat doesn't help. Years ago I tried uploading my daughter's recital to youtube as a unlisted/private video to share with out of state relatives. Thanks to the music, it got an instant copyright strike. That was the last time I uploaded to youtube :-/
- exikyut 2y ago*facepalm* And that would presumably be evidence of however many doofuses trying to upload their entire music library to YouTube privately. It both doesn't make sense - you're making a private collection - and also does; YouTube have a for-profit music streaming service. I guess we're now entering an era where we don't just have to worry about *just* paperclip maximization, but also the dimension of "how many paperclips the humans are leaving in the training data when they walk away from the LLM" :/ - in this case, if you upload 1000 songs into a private playlist then fine, maybe penalize that. But for a single video? That's messed up.