I'd be interested to see the statistics on how much of that is comprised of videos that haven't been watched in over a decade, or ever. Surely they could nuke a couple million hours of MLG montage parodies and craft beer podcasts without anyone noticing?
We all have India Derangement Syndrome at this point, but nonetheless I wonder what would happen if Youtube just nuked all content from India (and to a greater extent, Pakistan). If you just go to the main page and view the most recent uploads, it's just an endless stream of useless shit from pajeets. Not to mention they're the ones who run most of the AI slop channels, as well as the channels who steal other people's content to leech off ad revenue such as unauthorized Shorts channels that upload snippets from other videos.
The site would smell a lot better.
If you want to save yourself from some legal troubles later, look up "night routine" and delete those files. You'll know them when you see them.
Are you telling me that or are you quoting my post to refer to a third person? I'm not saving or archiving videos of little girls, I'm no sicko, I just found them when visiting the "Latest" page. In fact right now there are at least 3 videos of little girls on that page that someone archived... It's weird as fuck, and I don't think that stuff needs to be saved.
How the hell did I screw up this badly? Sorry. I meant for PreserveTube... forget it. Retardation on my part.
At one point for a short amount of time there were ads. I turned off my adblock when I noticed it was blocking stuff on the site. Not sure why they got rid of them with a push for donations instead of having both since you know most people are probably not gonna donate. I get ads are annoying but as long as they aren't intrusive and aren't a crazy resource hog I don't care if it's able to help keep the site afloat. (Maybe have a message to urge people to turn off their adblockers?)
Most of it is actually just garbage made by ai accounts in the past 2 years. Youtube has been trying to nuke them off the site and demonetize videos which have ai stuff in them but they're only removing the heavy hitters (over 10k subscribers). That and Indians posting... whatever Indians post...
Perhaps in lieu of permanent reduction in quality, what about tiered storage? Have a normal, faster storage made out of SSDs or whatever, setup for the small bit of videos that are usually or recently watched, and is fast enough to stream at full quality. Then, as videos sit unwatched, they fall out of that smaller, higher speed storage system and get relegated away to a bigger, but slower system made out of traditional hard drives. Then all that remains in the fast storage would be a thumbnail sized downsample of the video at 240p or some other small size that takes up relatively little storage space.
Only if you look at the cost of media. A compatible drive costs roughly 100x that at $5600. I think tape is nifty, too, but it remains limited to big players who have store terabytes of information offsite because they're subject to regulations, and the drives are priced accordingly. That price isn't just manufacturers being greedy assholes taking advantage of deep pockets. Tape transports require some fairly high-precision parts that are not trivial or cheap to make. If you've ever had a video tape or multi-track audio tape transport apart, you'd understand.
My suggestion would be to add a field for "reason for archival" and periodically check the database and prune archives with no good reason. Would save money but cost time.
If you could crowd source this maybe but just for him alone it wouldn't be feasible. Then you'd be getting into trying to define what is worthwhile in a way that retards can make consistent judgements. That might work but has a lot of pitfalls.
I wish @PreserveTube would purge all videos featuring little girls. A couple of weeks ago, there were videos of a girl, about 10 years old, practicing gymnastics in a leotard. Why would anyone need to archive that?
The general consensus of the thread mostly supports filtering videos before they are downloaded, through a written reason, a user account or a block and removal of anything from the third world, as archiving anything and everything with no rhyme or reason is a noble goal but completely unreasonable. A secondary task would be to go back and systematically purge shit that has no recognizable archival value such as the stuff Banana mentioned above.
I have a heartwarming update to this. The video was recovered in all its loud, crunchy glory.One of my favorite videos from like, 2007/2008 is just totally gone from the internet. It was simply titled "Bunny Yelling" iirc, and it's exactly what's on the box; a short video of a woman yelling "Bunnyyyy!" to her pet rabbit, and the rabbit makes some cute surprisingly noisy sounds back. Rabbits don't usually vocalize very much so it was kind of a fascinating video, especially because it was just sitting on the person recording the video. When I tried to search it, instead I found the following:
This was all from just searching the word "Bunny". I searched "Bunny Yelling" first and got nothing. I didn't think to archive the video myself years ago because I never would've guessed that YouTube would take it down. I am pretty sure the video is privated by the owner but I'm not confident. There is a chance they privated it either for personal reasons or from crazies assuming the rabbit was abused somehow to make the sounds. The video is old and very pixelated like 240p or 360p.
- Random episodes from TV cartoons that are already available on other piracy sites
- Clips from cartoon TV shows that are, again, already available on other piracy sites
- AMV garbage
- Porn
- Some weird racist videos from Chinese Historian that picked up because he used words like "snow bunny" and "rice bunny"
- Other shitty raceplay videos that were picked up because of keywords like those
- Furry inflation and "weight gain" EPI shit (
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- Vtuber crap
- Other awful gooner content, generally with blurred anime girl tits in the thumbnail
- YouTube-exclusive kids content that nobody is probably going to watch, probably archived from archiver 'tism that it will be gone later
- A few actual rabbit videos, but not the one I was looking for
The site could probably use some kind of content pruning, particularly for TV shows that are definitely going to be saved somewhere else. The creepy EPI furry videos also deserve to be lost forever.
I looked into this initially, and ruled it not being worth it. Encoding takes a lot of time, and also resources -- trying to downscale a 15min 1080p video to 480p took ~30min.
Bingo. Also an ungodly amount of people using it as an alternative to Invidious when the main public instances are offline. I've also seen a weird amount of people archiving their own personal videos.
Neither do I. Another problem is that most people that watch the archives don't watch them on the site, they watch them via some guy that reuploaded it back onto Youtube, potentially even with adsense enabled. Reaching those users via donation banners is impossible.
I replied to your email at the time. Whitelisting your IPs from the captchas in the archiving page would probably be enough to allow you to automate the archivals.
It's rented storage servers, so not my own physical hardware. That adds to the costs, of course. At the same, right now isn't the best time to transition to physical servers, considering the prices and all.
I'm already getting the lowest codec. The default quality is 480p, but it's lowered to 360p if video is longer than 15 minutes.
Preservetube is too shady for legitimate ad platforms, and too non-shady for shady ad platforms. Banner ads on shady ad platforms, which would only be gambling, pay little to nothing.
This is the main reason channel archives aren't full channel archives, they're only the first 5 videos. Surprisingly enough, most people archiving whole channels do it video by video. For example, the one guy that decided it was worth his time to archive an entire channel worth of Brazilian cartoons did it that way.
I'll have to actually look into this, ty.
They still make a good point, especially considering the queued downloading for cheaper pricing.
Oh god. I blocked saving from Tor IPs ages ago to try and avoid this happening, but people will be creeps from anywhere I guess. I'll have to look into this.
So when you had ads running on the site they made no money? Could Rumble's advertising platform work? Playwire? (Just suggestions from a tard.)
Something to consider for this, this video (archive.today) has been removed via a DMCA takedown. Yet on this site it still shows that it's available on YouTube, despite not being playable and showing the DMCA takedown message. Not sure how you plan on detecting if videos have been removed or not, but figured this could be helpful info.
Disclaimer: I have not looked deeply into this, but there may be a correlation between a "takedown" and "country restriction" (not the same thing, but with similar results), meaning, it's possible that a video that has been taken down like your example, also shows up as country restricted according to YouTube's API.
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