There's videos from ~15 years ago that I consider gone for good - lost to the great copyright apocalypse - having been unable to find them anywhere on the today's internet.
I often get a wave of videos I've watched years ago pop up as recommended and not marked as watched.
I saw a similar thing some years back: playlists I had created began to be missing videos.
Been scraping ever since…
...what? Why? Do you feel the videos she likes should be allowed to just vanish into the mists of time? To me that sounds like saying 'my sister takes pictures at her daughters' birthdays and I'm trying to get her to stop'.
If you're grabbing 720p of things you actually watched, then at 4 hours at day and 1.5Mbps an entire year of recordings would be less than a terabyte. So I'd estimate this as a $1-5 per month hobby and the time/effort shouldn't be too bad either. If they reach small NAS territory then that's a useful thing to learn. They just need to limit the 4K content.
Just yesterday, I was watching Digging The Greats on YouTube, discussing De La Soul's Three Feet High and Rising. He can't even recreate the beat/mix on YouTube as it would get flagged for copyright. It was unavailable for streaming/download until 2023 due to licensing issues.
My go-to example of disappearing media is the third season of Monkey Dust that ran into problems with music licensing and so it was never available on DVD and will never be screened again. (Available through nautical methods)
> ...what? Why? Do you feel the videos she likes should be allowed to just vanish into the mists of time? To me that sounds like saying 'my sister takes pictures at her daughters' birthdays and I'm trying to get her to stop'.
Anything, even good things, can be done to excess.
But it does take a non-zero amount of time to copy/paste a URL and then move the files to external storage when my laptop gets heavy with data.
And while it does feel a bit like a mental sickness (really, sickness?) I have other behaviors like spending too much time on YouTube in general that unfortunately would persist whether I was hoarding or not.
I do try to walk away from the browser more these days—limit it to a few hours in the morning and then when I am eating lunch or whatever during the day.
Hoarding is more getting hold of data/films/tv/music that you're not expecting to get around to watching, but feel like you want a copy or that it is of cultural relevance.
e.g. I grabbed a copy of Sátántangó due to it's fame/importance, but I'm unlikely to sit through 7 hours of it.
Or more recently, I grabbed a better quality copy of the original Green Hornet series that I'm not going to bother watching.
That being said, up until literally a week or two ago, I had a data cap of 1.3TB/mo. It'd take me a while to hoard much data after all of my normal data usage. If you stream a lot of video, 1.3TB is shockingly little.
What are you trying to archive? Is it the words the person is saying, or the arrangement of his freckles? Even the lowest video quality is sufficient to convey all of the information content of most videos. Sometimes the audio alone is sufficient.
The file size difference between the 360p and 4k versions of the video can be 95% or more. That is to say you can archive twenty times more videos. I wouldn't recommend going below 360p. At 360p expect to store around 1-2 MB per minute.
Same for downloading content. Over 15+ years, there have been so many tools that purport to download YouTube videos and they either don't work or get patched or full of bugs or malware. It's surprisingly hard to do, especially at any scale. more of an art than science. understandably, YouTube does not want people just downloading their content easily without paying for premium.
yt-dlp -U
That's the thing though, it was never yours. Just a corner in Google's library that they let you curate. You don't have to do that. It was never a good deal.
Then, usually you play the list by itself from random position and order. So I quite often listen to them, but for a playlist of maybe 50 entries, i will just noticed that things disappeared when looking at the "hidden entries" thing.
Like tears in the rain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAzpa1x7jU
In this day and age will AI be born a replicant but dies a human?
Those were definitely not copyright claimed by anybody. But 3/4 of them are gone by now when I tried some nostalgia - youtbe -spelunking recently . I assume youtube silently deletes videos if they are never watched? Or maybe they are still there, but not easily findable anymore.
Still - it would not surprise me to find out that youtube has some kind of culling mechanism for deleting old videos form inactive uploaders that don't get views.
Also afraid of this happening on Apple Music, Books etc
I wish they at least stored the title of the video
This is literally why I built joyscroller for myself hahaha give a try, fork it if you want. https://github.com/sergiotapia/joyscroller