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While I have some sympathy with this position I think it's worth remembering that there's a huge long-tail of absolute rubbish on YouTube.

The fact that they keep it around, for free, over years and years, and at no cost to the user is remarkable to me.

Yes, YouTube is quite good if your data is absolute rubbish and you’re pleasantly surprised by anything less than full deletion.

Expecting any company to store infinite content for free forever is a bit of a curious expectation

Yeah I remember when image sites all stopped their free tier a few years ago and it broke a lot of old forum posts.

There's a reason why serious archiving of knowledge is left to government institutions.