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oh wow, hadn't even thought of that! I put the url wayback machine at top of this post:https://steveiscritical.com/05/youtube-ui-ux-fail-delete-acc...

It's the 'rook' playlist that got deleted, ( when trying to edit playlist to change not so great thumbnail. )

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Unfortunately I got the same result that archivarix did above, nothing in CC and nothing in IA. The thumbnail had a different link than the title of the playlist so I thought I’d try that, but the wayback machine redirects to the first video on the playlist, and there’s nothing in the common crawl. I also checked the html just in case there was a track listing hidden in there, but there wasn’t.

Really appreciate you taking the time and thinking of some alternative methods!

Not sure if there is a blocker from youtube in some way, but making backups of public playlists would certainly come in handy for a lot of people.

Seeing the articles and youtube videos and other articles about how to find your YT profile URL and searching the archive - obviously it's a thing bigger than I thought, and not something I ever considered.

I just thought to try putting “music” in place of “www” in the playlist url, but unfortunately IA and CC still have nothing.

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