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Re:YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli h... by 9991 on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @07:50AM (#45822294)
Is that a joke? They're all 'at risk' of deletion.
Re:YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli h... by hsbauauvhabzb on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @08:00AM (#45822388)
No, the vast majority of videos on YouTube are not at a particular risk of deletion. Specific topics are, but the average Linus tech tips video is not.
Re:YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli h... by teddyh on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @08:18AM (#45822531)
Amusingly, Linus Tech Tips has had many videos censored and removed by YouTube.
Re:YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli h... by hsbauauvhabzb on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @08:27AM (#45822591)
I think it’s pretty obvious when they’re gonna get removed. Almost certainly someone has a local mirror of that channel.
Re:YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli h... by serf on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @07:06PM (#45829776)
it is not at all obvious when some automated check somewhere will flag or remove a youtube video.

all YT videos are in danger of deletion. You can argue whether or not they're worthy of the merit of saving, but you cannot deny their risk for sudden removal.

Re:YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli h... by hsbauauvhabzb on Thursday November 06, 2025 @12:28AM (#45831808)
Archive.org have stated they do not want to be a complete mirror of YouTube which is fair enough. Content creators could easily retain a local copy of files and upload them to archive.org in the even of removal, or an individual could retain local mirrors of channels to do the same thing. Archive.org are aware of the fact that things hosted on websites might disappear, I can’t speak for why YouTube is not a desirable thing to mirror but I assume the volume would be massive and the risks of potential copywrite / illegal / highly illegal content etc would be undesirable from a management perspective.
Re:YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli h... by notorandit on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @10:19AM (#45823764)
Yes. Everything on internet can be deleted and modified at someone's will.