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Comment by keyle | Hacker News Reader

YouTube is less and less about You.

It's like they've got too much content anyway, so why not just start banning stuff?

Ironically, they remove the videos that people watch, not the thousands of terabytes of videos with 3 clicks in the last 6 years.

It would be sad if they removed the videos with 3 click in the last 6 years, because those are the ones of your granddaughter, living thousands of km away, taking her first steps, or reading her first reading primer by herself. These are the things that help families stay in touch. Just because they don't attract mass clicks (and aren't intended to) does not detract from the value they have for the small number of viewers to whom they matter.

WTH, don't keep that stuff on YT.

Well,... for some people that seems to be the easiest way to distribute it to the whole (widely dispersed, extended) family.

What would you suggest as an alternative?

I'd recommend Firefox Send (https://send.firefox.com/) or maybe Dropbox.

Or whatsapp or signal... Or google drive. Just not YouTube.

Google Photos

Hackers use adblock anyway.

Ah, the Wikipedia strategy.

It is actually probably kind of like that, although not as part of a moralistic panic or a political purge as seem to be the common assumptions. What they likely have is too much content that makes too little money and attracts too few advertisers, so they're willing to lose the content they can most afford to lose. It's a simple cost/benefit analysis to them.

Social media sites which depend on user supplied content use that content to advertise the platform. Maybe no one told Youtube content creators that they were really doing sales work for Google, but that's always been the nature of the modern social media model. They don't work for you, you work for them.

TANSTAAFL.

Now that you said it, GTube rebranding seems imminent, especially with Google's track record on such things.

*google

*alphabet

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