Retrieve the comments history of any YouTube user across 1.4B users

Re:Retrieve the comments history of any YouTube user across ... by gonzalezj on Monday May 26, 2025 @12:41AM (#44094034)

In line with the recent Discord message dataset and the searchcord post...

I find it a little insane that this is remotely feasible without state-level resources, but it doesn't seem like YouTube has any serious anti-scraping measures to prevent me from doing exactly what this person seems to be doing. I guess Google does not consider this a privacy boundary?

It appears to be just this one guy: https://x.com/lol_archiver/status/1924881379705454923

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Re:Retrieve the comments history of any YouTube user across ... by remarkEon on Monday May 26, 2025 @12:32PM (#44098966)

First real use case I can think of here is doxxing.

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Re:Retrieve the comments history of any YouTube user across ... by codedokode on Monday May 26, 2025 @05:25PM (#44101829)

Maybe people just should not post things they would regret about, or at least do it anonymously, or at least use fake phone number. Sadly our govt doesn't want us to use fake phone numbers.

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Re:Retrieve the comments history of any YouTube user across ... by sparky_z on Monday May 26, 2025 @11:51PM (#44103807)

I would have assumed that this wouldn't require a tool. That you could just click on a user and get this information, just like you can for Hacker News, Reddit, and myriad other social media sites (not to mention old-school forums). Apparently you can't, but I wouldn't have found it remotely surprising if you could. They're all public comments that are tied to the username, right?

Am I missing something here? I honestly find it strange that you consider this such a mind-blowing privacy breach that should require state-level resources to accomplish.

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