Just found a hack to avoid the commercials. If you pull up the video and then put a hyphen after the t in youtube and hit enter it will open in a new window with no commercials. Pretty cool tbh
Youtube has made coding changes to block some of my hacks.
Back in the day, YouTube would send an e-mail immediately after an upload was complete. It included the url of the video. Quite often, a second e-mail would arrive seconds later, with notice that the video would be blocked because of a copyright claim. I used to upload videos that I knew would be blocked, just to get the url.
I can still watch those videos while logged into my channel, but they don't appear in search results, and I can't post a working link to them in a forum post nor private message.
I had a method of posting those blocked videos in forums. It involved copying the video url, and pasting it twice, one after another, with no spaces in between. What was really good about this hack was that the video suggestions at the end of the playback were often other people's blocked videos. Algorithms can be stupid that way.
I don't think that works anymore, but I'll give it a shot:
No, it didn't work. I'll try something else.
Let me know if you can see the list of videos in this link:
Deel video's met vrienden, familie en de wereld.
studio.youtube.com
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One really easy way to let other people see blocked videos would be to create a dummy e-mail address, make a YouTube account for that address, upload only Private videos, then share the e-mail address and password for the account privately.
I don't think YouTube is legally allowed to just delete uploaded videos, (as opposed to making them impossible to view, (unless you are signed in to the uploader's account), with these exceptions:
The video is identical to a previous upload, for which a copyright claim exists.
The video is identical to a previous upload, (not just the content; the actual video file).
You can upload ANYTHING to YouTube, provided that it is a video file, and the video is identified as Private.
My gut feeling is that Google keeps a cache of all uploaded videos which have been blocked. Eventually the content will fall into the public domain, at which point, Google will claim the videos for themselves, if the content has any value.
Most likely, YouTube is not allowed to physically delete uploaded videos, because there might be potential for a civil lawsuit if that policy was not applied impartially, or if it was applied unevenly. Someone who posted a video with unpopular political opinions, for instance, might be able to successfully sue YouTube if their video was deleted, but other videos expressing different beliefs were not.