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Changes to Unlisted Videos Uploaded Before 2017
Published 23 Jun 2021
Any Unlisted videos that were uploaded before January 1st, 2017 will be moved to Private starting July 23, 2021 - unless you take action. In this video, we'll walk you through what actions you can take before this change takes effect. If you would like your affected videos to remain Unlisted in their current state, you can opt out of this change here: https://support.google.com/youtube/contact/older_unlisted_update To see the videos affected by this change, click here from a computer: https://yt.be/help/J8ndb Learn more with this Help Center article: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9230970 This is happening because in 2017, we rolled out a security update to the system that generates new Unlisted video links. This update included security enhancements that make the links for your Unlisted videos even harder for someone to discover if you haven’t shared the link with them. We’re now making changes to older Unlisted videos that were uploaded before this update took place. We understand that this change may be challenging, so we’re giving you time to make adjustments to your videos before this change takes effect starting July 23, 2021. Subscribe and hit the bell to see new videos: https://goo.gl/So4XIG ► Check out our Help Center: https://goo.gl/fBzr7
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If you would like your affected videos to remain Unlisted in their current state, you can opt out of this change here:
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You have time to make adjustments to your affected videos before this change takes effect starting July 23, 2021. .. ...Expand 72
people use unlisted videos for smaller communities, groups, and events. Creators of content often make their old videos unlisted when moving onto new things in order to allow fans to revisit them if they wish. Unlisted videos aren' t just things people wish to hide from the public; they' re often used for organizational or convenience purposes. Toremove all unlisted videos on inactive channels is probably youtube' s most egregious update yet, and that' s saying something.
why, youtube? I cannot wrap my head around the level of evilness or the sheer level of incompetency which must be involved here. Wow
good job as always youtube. 156
this change will make so much great and often historical videos disappear forever. By choosing to use an opt-out decision countless
also - there' s no reason youtube couldn' t implement aon server-side and transfer the data with it, what is this " reupload your videos to use new features" garbage
The substandard communication around such a big change has left much to be desired, and you've left me with so many unanswered questions:
- What are the details of the actual security vulnerability this protects against??
- What level of risk are we even talking about?
- What is the security impact of opting out?
- Will 'upgraded' videos still be playable from existing playlists? If not, what about after they are returned to Unlisted status?
- Is there a way for a channel to restore old IDs after July 23? If you do proceed with this ludicrous change, that feature would be critical to be able to restore availability.
- Is there a way to upgrade the ID of individual videos without incurring the loss of quality and associated data, of having to re-upload?
- Is there a way to opt-out only particular videos?
- What other options for mitigation were considered?
- Why only give a single month's notice if action is required by all channels?
- Did you gather any community feedback regarding this change? I doubt more than a miniscule percentage of users would see this as something other than a detrimental change.
YouTube have made a lot of negative and greedy changes in recent years, but this absolutely takes the cake. You MUST reverse this decision, lest you totally and utterly alienate the community. Please reimplement this as a opt-in feature on a per-video basis - the ability to regenerate a new (secret) ID at any time would be a handy feature anyway.
Do see the excellent comment from @LittleshyFiM - .. ...Expand 8
although rip classic unlisted videos accessible from old websites. 27
i did hear that the biggest expense to youtube was the millions of unlisted and unwatched videos they store for free. So this is polite but
you really need to make this opt-in instead of opt-out. 570
go through all your playlists (likes, watch later, etc)
look for all so you can save, reupload or watch them one last time
i fully expect a ton of copyright infringements, as fans start re-uploading their favourite creators video' s.
i also expect family members to lose the video' s their loved ones shared with them before passing away.
way to go youtube. As with all your changes, there' s only two words you need to understand: " opt in"
" because new links are more secure! "
" and what does the new security actually change? "
" new links are more secure! "
" in what way were the old links less secure? "
" new links are more secure! "
" how does one breach security on older videos in ways they can' t do with newer videos? "
" new links are more secure! "
" what does breaching security on a youtube video even mean? "
" new links are more secure! "
" if our security is so important to you, why did you wait four and a half years to roll out this change? "
" new links are more secure! "
" is this just another pathetic excuse to reduce
" new links are more secure! "
" yeah, i thought so. "
took a lot of searching, but i finally found the details on the r/datahoarder thread " archive team' s youtube unlisted video grab hits a 100tbs" and a hacker news thread it links to:
video id is just a base64' ed des-encrypted primary int64 video key from mysql. It used to be sequentially incremented until at some point they switched to randomly generated primary keys. Any (ex- engineer who snapped a copy of the encryption key (it used to sit right in the code for anyone to see) can enumerate all videos from yt until that moment, including unlisted - which are only protected by secrecy of that one key. If the key leaks, then also anyone in the world can. That' s what they are afraid of here. Source: worked for yt
To get it working you need to open the downloaded folder in an IDE that can run Python and follow the instructions in the Readme file (you'll also need to create a YouTube API key). .. ...Expand 5
change your ceo. 29
what monstrosity do you have planned next? 7
i dont want them to get notified. 2