Re:YouTube as Storage
by zaik on Saturday February 14, 2026 @09:27AM
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Hopefully the deletion will not affect videos with thousands of views, even if the account is lost.
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Re:YouTube as Storage
by loloquwowndueo on Saturday February 14, 2026 @09:43AM
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Sweet summer child.
Re:YouTube as Storage
by CuriouslyC on Saturday February 14, 2026 @09:52AM
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Goog is 100% not going to delete anything that is driving any advertising at all. The videos are also useful for training AI regardless, so I expect the set of stuff that's deleted will be a VERY small subset. The difference with email is that email can be deduplicated, since it's a broadcast medium, while video is already canonical.
I expect rather than deleting stuff, they'll just crank up the compression on storage of videos that are deemed "low value."