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Re:Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work by ______-_-______ on Saturday February 19, 2022 @06:05PM (#30401378)
If even one person sees that comment and pulls their content out of the google ecosystem, then the comment was helpful.

Run this:

youtube-dl https://youtube.com/c/MyChannel

and have a snack while it finishes. You'll thank yourself later.

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Re:Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work by kodt on Saturday February 19, 2022 @06:12PM (#30401437)
Should not creators already have local copies of videos they upload to YouTube?
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Re:Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work by Ekaros on Saturday February 19, 2022 @06:13PM (#30401451)
They should. And if they don't it is clear the video have no future value for them. So why should it have for anyone else?
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Re:Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work by sodality2 on Saturday February 19, 2022 @08:54PM (#30402494)
I know plenty of people who say, "Well, it's on YouTube, it's not gonna shut down any time soon" so they delete their local copies, unfortunately
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