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Comment by Jamie9912 | Hacker News Reader

Perform a Google Takeout, all my videos were there from my banned YouTube account.

Thanks for giving the OP some firsthand advice that answers his question and might actually work, rather than chiding him with some variant of "You shouldn't have trusted YouTube in first place ('you big dummy', implied)". That type of "advice" accomplishes nothing, other than maybe boosting the ego of the person making it.

> That type of "advice" accomplishes nothing, other than maybe boosting the ego of the person making it.

That depends on whether anyone other than OP ever reads the comment thread.

probs talking about me. My replies works as a warning to someone reading the post. The Google download is actually a nice tip tho.

People don't make these posts to serve as cautionary tales for others, they're usually asking for help.

You’re right, we need more tech support requests on HN.

They tend to get moderated away most of the time, which you can help by flagging them or emailing them to hn@ycombinator.com. Supercilious PSAs don't do any of that.

It's very common on HN. I do it too. Mostly because we spend a lot of effort avoiding these platforms, and when something bad happens to a person because of it, we can shout, "Ha! My paranoia is justified!"

If you're working day to day as an engineer, you end up mostly thinking in unhappy cases and 99.99% uptime scenarios, so it actually seems like helpful advice.

Exactly this. My actual comment emerges more from fear rather than ego.

Thanks for the tip! I hope this works, as YouTube banned all my private christmas videos from the 80s.

Must've been a pretty wild Christmas party.

By the standard at the time, probably lame.

My parents had until couple of years ago photos and 8mm film from my early childhood where I staggering around in just shoes. I hated clothes even in winter.

These days that would be classified as child pornography and likely land them in prison. They were upset about destroying innocent memories but.. well..

Times change, not always for the better.

I wish! It's me as a child running around in a t-shirt, waiting for Santa. Apparently that's not allowed.

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