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points by glouwbug 2 days ago | 0 comments

I've had luck going to my liked videos, hitting the 3 dots under "Liked videos", selecting "Show unavailable videos", and copying the video watch?= ID into google. If the video is popular enough its text should pop up in a forum somewhere with some discussion at least where you'll find the right clues. Example: 9_1Qn370IIY

[–] cowlevel 2 days ago

Just FYI: only your last 5000 liked videos are in this list, then they drop off the beginning. So back up the list itself if you depend on it

[–] glouwbug 2 days ago

Strange how they only let you store that many. That's gotta less than a couple megs

[–] code_biologist 2 days ago

I assume it’s a Bigtable thing. I hate Bigtable so much.

[–] oblio 2 days ago

That seems ironic. Does <<Big>>Table have limited table sizes?

[–] cowlevel 9 hours ago

A couple megs times one billion users is a couple pets.

[–] wodenokoto 2 days ago

Interesting. Is there a similar reason why old videos show up as unwatched?

I often get a wave of videos I've watched years ago pop up as recommended and not marked as watched.

[–] joshuat 2 days ago

internet archive also has a decent portion of old popular videos

[–] jamesfinlayson 2 days ago

Internet Archive is one of the few tech causes that I donate to for this reason.