I dont know what to think, really.

The Dekaif channel has 434 videos, but YouTube is only showing 275 to clients, whether logged in or not, whether yt-dlp or official access.

This isn’t the first channel I’ve witnessed this, and weirder stuff, on. Another example is this video - “Belt” meme - it is accessible on Grayjay, yet not on YouTube, meaning (I think) that publicly shared videos are being deindexed, and yet they are still hosted.

You used to be able to take the video code from the URL (everything after ‘?v=’ and before ‘&’) and get the exact video in search results. Not now. The second YouTuber, Sparky, has 35 uploads, only 9 of which are visible. And I can attest that at least one of the remaining 26 is hosted, but invisible. I don’t even know how it came up using Grayjay but not YouTube or Revanced.

Basically, there’s a TON of shady underhanded shit happening at YTHQ and everyone needs to jump ship to Odysee, Peertube or some platform that won’t be clogged with AI. This is bad for everyone.

I’m posting it here mainly because I verified my findings with yt-dlp, and this new bs is successfully thwarting my attempts to archive.

3rd Oct edit: I am seeing massive differences in indexed videos versus archived videos. I am currently aggregating but the definitely affected videos range from 10% to 50%

  • Pamasich@kbin.earth
    35·
    17 days ago

    Youtube seems to be blocking access to a seriously large amount of publicly listed videos

    Creators can choose whether their videos should be accessible and whether they should be listed anywhere. Which you don’t seem to have ruled out being the case here. So I’d say you’re jumping the gun here.

    I have seen channels which delisted (and later privated entirely) almost all their videos for legitimate reasons, so it’s certainly possible.

    And I can attest that at least one of the remaining 26 is hosted, but invisible.

    This one is almost certainly just delisted.

    everyone needs to jump ship to Odysee

    The fediverse has its own video platform (peertube).

    • weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      17 days ago

      PeerTube is a hard sell. Finding things to watch on there is a pain since most instances are trash. Only ones I can think of that are worth using are diode.zone and tilvids. Tilvids is nice but a lot of their material is uploaded from YouTube and the sponsorships are still embedded. If Sponsorblock was configured to work with it though it would be interesting.