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My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube. (aus.social)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ajsadauskas@aus.social to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.

There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.

So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?

#tech #technology #Google #enshittification #youtube #video @technology #capitalism #film #television #cinema #art #arts #SocialMedia #business #economics

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[–] VoxofGod@mastodon.social 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology

Curious if you are aware of anyway of downloading one's content off YouTube for this all but inevitable moment?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yt-dl.

Command line tool, works on all desktop OS's, can handle things in batch, download full playlists, etc.

I believe the current up to date/maintained fork of it is yt-dlp

[–] nbhansen@hci.social 3 points 9 months ago

@VoxofGod @ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology 4k videodownloader is great for downloading everyones content <3

[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 0 points 9 months ago

I use Downie (on Mac) but there’s a video downloader app for every platform. It doesn’t download the ads either 😉