“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you opt out”

Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by brokenmachine on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:53PM (#27612568)

We've always been at war with Eastasia.

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by yoz-y on Thursday June 24, 2021 @01:56AM (#27614408)

I love me a random 1984 reference… care to explain what’s wrong with honouring user requests to delete their data?

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by brokenmachine on Thursday June 24, 2021 @07:51PM (#27625425)

In my opinion, once the video is added to my list, at least the name should become my data.

Also I seriously doubt that all those missing videos were requested to be deleted by the user. I'd be willing to bet that 90% of them were taken down by youtube's ridiculous and mostly broken takedown bots. There should be consequences for frivolous takedowns.

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Re:“Older unlisted videos will be made private unless you op... by rozab on Thursday June 24, 2021 @06:46AM (#27615909)

The idea that all or most of these missing videos are due to GDPR deletion requests is completely incorrect. They are almost all from spurious copyright takedown requests. YouTube has no legal obligation to automatically honor these, and it certainly doesn't have to delete all associated metadata. Framing this issue as an instance of YouTube being respectful of their users data is ridiculous.

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