Ha! My time to shine..
I’ve got somewhere around 80TB of YouTube content on my NAS including thousands of videos that aren’t available anymore on YouTube or anywhere else online. The joy of hoarding data..
I just recently checked my collection to see which videos aren’t available anymore online. I should probably cross check the results with Archive to see if they have them available!
I’ve got two identical servers, one will go to The Internet Archive and the other one should go to some German archive but I haven’t decided which one, still looking around.
I have a script in place that deletes all private data off of those servers before and instructed two friends and some family members on how to proceed.
Of course I don’t just hoard YouTube videos.. There’s a wide variety of data on there.
About lost content; I just recently started looking up all the YouTube videos I own to see how many aren’t available anymore on YouTube (A LOT). Still trying to decide if I should re-up them with some burner accounts or leave it be..
Are you a ginger by any chance? ;)
On topic - I've also made a habit of downloading any videos/channels that are super interesting but I feel may also be ephemeral. Some of that ephemerality is often due to copyright claims, performances of classical music by amateurs and such.
But it’s not like I’ve watched every video I have, often I just download entire channels if I deem the content to be worthy for archiving.
Not really my thing ;)
I pay 80€ per month (~$92) which I think is fair. I get 25GB roaming data per month to use within the EU.
But most mobile plans do throttle your speed to something unusable after you’ve used up your included high speed volume here too. This can range anywhere from a couple MB up to 50GB/month afaik.