General Entertainment Google is Set to Delete Millions of YouTube Videos this December from inactive accounts

[SaysWho?]

Updating our inactive account policies

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Starting later this year, we are updating our inactivity policy for Google Accounts to 2 years across our products.

 

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Starting later this year, if a Google Account has not been used or signed into for at least 2 years, we may delete the account and its contents – including content within Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar), YouTube and Google Photos.

 

[Kal-El814]

Eat shit assholes.

[Guest]

Asking private companies to be the caretaker of all human knowledge was not a great idea 

[Keyser_Soze]

At least it's giving more time than Twitter is to be considered inactive.

[Ghost_MH]

I wonder how much heavy lifting "may delete" is doing here. I have a hard time believing YouTube will purge videos with tons of views on a years dead account.

[Keyser_Soze]

3 hours ago, Ghost_MH said:

I wonder how much heavy lifting "may delete" is doing here. I have a hard time believing YouTube will purge videos with tons of views on a years dead account.

 

Yeah, like the history of dance video that was the most viewed video for a long time. I bet that account isn't doing much these days but this is something you'd certainly keep around right?

[Reputator]

Yeah I wonder if they take into account videos still getting active views and comments.

 

I'll have to backup videos on my late father's YouTube channel of him playing music at folk festivals.