#Google just announced that going forward, any account not logged into for two years gets deleted.
This means huge amounts of rare or unique #video is about to disappear from #YouTube as accounts get flagged as inactive, such as when the user dies. Families' #HomeMovies (often posted by an older relative for their family's benefit), historical footage, rare #television clips, etc. What an incalculable loss to human #history and culture!
If there are videos important to you on someone else's video channel, find a way to download them. And if you have rare #media of historical importance, consider leaving it to institutional #archives or lending it to archives for digital preservation.
For people previous using youtube-dl for archive purposes, that has now been abandoned :(
However, there is a fully maintained replacement fork called yt-dlp:
@FediThing @StevenCapsuto That doesn't seem right. The latest commit to youtube-dl is just a week ago. Maybe you meant youtube-dlc which was a fork of youtube-dl itself?
