YouTube on Wednesday will begin testing a new age-verification system in the U.S. that relies on artificial intelligence to differentiate between adults and minors.
I always secretly hoped one of the big porn companies would step up and start a competing service, since they’re probably the only ones with the necessary infrastructure already in place.
Sure I’ll just put that on my 10 Exabyte drive. On my 100Gbps connection.
Obviously only the channels/specific videos of importance to you. No one is realistically proposing backing up all of YT.
I dream of the day we don’t rely on one host for user content like YouTube. I worry for the history of the content there.
I always secretly hoped one of the big porn companies would step up and start a competing service, since they’re probably the only ones with the necessary infrastructure already in place.
I backed up a few dozen channels on a spare 3TB drive. Planning on making torrents to add to a seedbox later.
What’s the best method for maintaining quality when backing up a YT vid?
yt-dlp usually picks the best flags by default but may need your browser cookies. I usually manually set <=1080p