YouTube Possibly Deleting Millions of Old Videos
Google has announced that it's gearing up to delete accounts and their contents if they have been inactive within the last two years. This means that if there's an inactive account that Google deems worth deleting, it could, in the company's own words, also remove all of the associated content created by it including "content within Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar), YouTube and Google Photos." This process won't begin until December 2023 and there will be plenty of notice via emails/notifications to users ahead of time. The company also plans to do it in phases, starting with accounts that were created and then never used after that. To avoid potentially being impacted by this, users simply have to login to their account and then do a Google search, watch a YouTube video, or read/send an email.
Although Google seems to be trying to give people time to get around this, there's likely content from accounts owned by people who have died, stopped creating content, or lost logins to their accounts. This could result in a lot of lost content on YouTube, big and small. Google plans to do this to avoid inactive accounts being used to scam/phish, as they're more prone to being compromised, but it is causing concern to those who see this as a preservation issue.
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Source: https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/youtube-deleting-millions-old-videos-accounts-google/
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FrogPosted:
juno what a sad day it is, golden videos are just gonna be gone forever!
Nah, they've since said they won't delete inactive accounts with videos.
ReidsoPosted:
it was going to be a pruning someday
they certainly wlll delete the really good old ones though
they certainly wlll delete the really good old ones though
RuntsPosted:
Knew it would come eventually. Which is sad. Some old classic stuff will be gone. Hell some already is
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