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Re:If you love a website, back it up by Foobar8568 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @01:31AM (#50348762)
Take youtube, I see plenty of videos being gone. Now any videos I like, I download it.

And remember this https://www.reddit.com/r/Mcat/comments/5yffns/uc_berkeley_is... / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768856

So no it's not an hyperbole, what used to be a place to share content becomes closed source.

People keep spouting torrenting is a solution, but a shitload of torrents are dead now.

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Re:If you love a website, back it up by alpaca128 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:46AM (#50349584)
Same, another benefit is that now and then I can scroll through my YT archive and rediscover stuff I'm almost guaranteed to enjoy.
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Re:If you love a website, back it up by mopsi on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:25AM (#50350633)
Worth a mention that yt-dlp can auto-download liked videos. So there's no effort involved at all after setting it up.
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