It has begun.Alexandria burns.
>Alexandria burnsit's just youtube videos you melodramatic faggot
>>109234646it's so over
>>109234394Let me guess, your favorite /pol/ grifter will now move to Rumble.
>>109234394always remember to back up the spicy videos you like so much. the ai moderation on that platform is absolutely ruthless in nuking entire youtube channels of one tos violation.
>>109235588I backed up my imaginary friends' channel and it's using almost 3TB. If I do this for all the horrible shit I watch it will financially ruin me.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete
>>109234646>>109235454this, the goyim should be oy vey, we just unlisted the video but we totally used it to train our ai models
>>109236017Gen Alpha baby realized for the first time that "the internet doesn't forget" only applies to stuff you do NOT want to remain online. Everything else 97%+ (statistically speaking) vanishes within a year of being posted online.
It burned ever since they rescaled all the old videos to be a 144 pixels mash while pretending to be 360p
>>109234646decades of internet history are being deleted as we speak and you have the fucking gall to minimize it?
>>109236017Google is deleting inactive google accounts and old youtube videos are getting caught in the crossfire.
main site doesn't even show the "not found" blurb anymore and seamlessly memory-holes anything in your playlist
>>109234394They purged tens of thousands of creators back in 2017-2018, and have been deleting anything that isn't (((approved))) since then.
>>109234394internet is dead since 2017, there are not even ashes anymore
>>109239124Does this affect the Filmot title restorer Userscript? That one normally shows you what the missing videos are. But it only works for older videos due to API issues.
>>109234646And Alexandria was just books, you melodramatic faggot, so why do you care?
>>109240458..what? don't just copy what I said, it doesn't make sense when you do it
been happening on youtube specifically for damn near 20 years. link rot is a very well documented problem. thinking its just begun means youre either a child or an idiot.
>>109238998every site and piece of content has an expiration date. you didn't think it was going to be around forever, did you?
>open youtube>go to favorites playlist, which has been growing since 2005>videos disappear more and more the further back I go>these fucking devs don't have the modicum of decency to at least leave the titles so I can know what I lostbest case scenario the URL in wayback machine gives me some info, but most of the time it's gone, learned my lesson and backed it up now
>>109240505..what? don't just copy what I said, it doesn't make sense when you do it
>>109234394It has been going on for a long time.They are literal nazis.
>>109240844There is a difference between the inevitable decay of things and megacorporations actively destroying them.Hot take, I know.
>>109241387>I have no memory of what I've lost>I only have the knowledge that I have lost something.You and I are brothers.
>>109240073I'll try it and tell you if it still works
>>109234646Volumina sunt, o cinaede tragice.
>>109241387yt-dlp has been around forever, and now even have command line AI agents, but you still can't be arsed to run the one prompt that would solve your issue permanently
>>109241802You don't backup until you learn you need to backup
>>109234394>Only just now discovers that YouTube deletes videos for bullshit reasons.Either you have been in a coma for a decade, or you are such a colossal normgroid faggot you've never seen a spicy video until now.Do the world a favour and kill yourself.
>>109241774I've tried it myself since you mentioned it and I got curious. It still works. You click on a playlist, then on the three dots on the left (where the shuffle button is) and click on "Show unavailable videos" and they should appear in blue on the right, where their place normally is in the playlist.
>>109241802couldn't prevent a problem I didn't know existed, this happened maybe a couple years ago, now kindly shove your inflammatory comments up your ass
>>109235588They can't now, they said HDDs were pointless when they were cheap and now they can't afford storage at all kek
>>109241821Yeah some shit is so mundane you think it will be around forever and then the creator just has a mid life crisis and deletes half their channel and you're like "Oh, well guess thats gone forever now" happened to me, I can only now go by memory
>>109242558>creator just has a mid life crisis and deletes half their channelI just saw an old youtube poop channel delete all their videos because of muh AI training, but they're okay with people reuploading those same videos to other channels. I don't understand people sometimes.
>>109234646good goy!
>>109242912Go be a nigger somewhere else m
>>109234394>>109238998>>109239011vidlii also started removing thousands of videos, even my uploads including Charlie Brown Christmas original 1965 airing that were lost media until 2021 got removed, they claimed they wouldn’t add a automated copyright system.
>>109234394there was a site called "externaltube", but it was shut down in 2024 for some reason and their discord server had been inactive since, and the source code got removed from GitHub.
>>109243452shalom goyim, keep up the good work!
>>109243494there was even a small discussion on it on the lost media forumhttps://forums.lostmediawiki.com/thread/20736/lost-externaltube-site
Hourly reminder that if data is not on your own hardware it's as good as gone.
>43 bumps>zero mention of what video got deleted
>>109235454Rumble is pretty good
>>109243649it's not "just one video"that's the problem
Download the things you like. Older YouTube videos shouldn't be too big. Make backups and all that. I thought this was public knowledge at this point with how things are going.
>>109234646Give them some slack. This like a heroin addict hearing his dealer just got arrested. They cant feed their addiction and go into jewtube withdrawals.
I try to archive things, but you can't know everything you need to download in advance. I was watching Star Wars a couple weeks ago, and it reminded me of a really good video I'd seen years ago. It was a breakdown of the nature of the Force as an in-universe tool for balance and continual conflict and the utility that provides a story setting.But sure enough, now that channel is gone (his other videos were mostly good, too). Someone re-uploaded his Kreia video, but most I can't find anywhere. I did find the one I was looking for, but the guy only had the audio.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mW9lvX5DeU
>>109238998>decades of internet history are being deletedGood
>>109234646That's where it starts you mental slave
>>109234394this has been reality for a long time
>>109234394AI solves this, retard.
Backups, backups, backups. Always download stuff and make backups of the stuff you like - videos, images, movies, music, shows, games (pirated, so they work offline), books, software. If you don't have it downloaded and backed up then it might not even exist
