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I would imagine a sizable portion of these old (15+ years ago) accounts are abandoned. Forgotten password, email address tied to an ISP that only serves a regio
by smitelli 2y ago
I would imagine a sizable portion of these old (15+ years ago) accounts are abandoned. Forgotten password, email address tied to an ISP that only serves a region where the person no longer lives, that kind of thing.
YouTube wasn’t always tied so strongly to a Google account, and overall fewer people had Google accounts in the first place.
- climb_stealth 2y agoI wonder if that is actually tru. Because interestingly enough my youtube account is the only remaining link I have to the internet of the past. Created in 2006 and I'm still using it. I'm not aware of anything else that has persisted since then. Old email accounts, forums, games - everything is gone now and inaccessible for me.
- reddalo 2y ago> YouTube wasn’t always tied so strongly to a Google account They still have a page to recover a pre-Google account. It used to be a clearly outdated page with old graphics, now they made it a bit "better". It's here: https://www.youtube.com/gaia_link https://www.youtube.com/gaia_link