Wouldn't it also be a performance nightmare?

The energy bill for scanning through the terabytes of metadata would be comparable to that of several months of AI training, not to mention the time it would take. Then deleting a few million random 360p videos and putting MrBeast in their place would result in insane fragmentation of the new files.

It might really just be cheaper to keep buying new HDDs.

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dev1ycan 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is why they removed searching for older videos (specific time) and why their search pushes certain algorithmic videos, other older videos when found by direct link are on long term storage and take a while to start loading.

	▲	joecool1029 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I’m pretty sure this is the real reason why they changed old unlisted videos to being marked private: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-youtube-unlisted...

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stogot 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

S3 allows delete and is efficient here. I’m sure Google can figure it out

They allow search by timestamp, I’m sure YouTube can write algo to find zero <=1 view

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moffkalast 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Besides with their search deteriorating to the point where a direct video title doesn't result in a match, nobody can see those videos anyway and they don't have to cache them.

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sfn42 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It's not just the search deteriorating. The frontend is littered with bugs. If you write a comment and try to highlight and delete part of that comment, it'll often delete the part you didn't highlight. So apparently they implemented their own textfield for some reason and also fucked it up. It's been like that for years.

The youtube shorts thing is buggy as shit, it'll just stop working a lot of the time, just won't load a video. Some times you have to go back and forth a few times to get it to load. It'll often desync the comments from the video, so you're seeing comments from a different video. Some times the sound from one short plays over the visuals of another.

It only checks for notifications when you open the website from a new tab, so if you want to see if you have any notifications you have to open youtube in a new tab. Refreshing doesn't work.

Seems like all the competent developers have left.

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r_lee 2 hours ago | parent [-]

and if you do a hard refresh on the webapp, it literally takes like 10 seconds for the homepage to load

	▲	sfn42 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, one that I forgot to mention is if you pause a youtube short and go to a different tab, the short will unpause in the background, or it might change to an entirely different short and start playing that.