[waboremo]

Only at the moment, YouTube was included as part of the content they're going to delete from accounts as per the VP announcement.

People should use this as a warning to save content they want to keep from YouTube that's particularly old and the account seems abandoned. Just in case Google isn't so lenient with the generous solution; unlinking YouTube accounts but keeping the video up.

[alpaca128]

I already download any video I find valuable with yt-dlp. So many videos just randomly disappear or are difficult to find again because Google keeps mixing more and more irrelevant suggestions and shorts into search results.

Disk space is cheap, and it can be nice to scroll through the folder now and then and rediscover some great content.

[neltnerb]

There's probably other cases of people like me deleting our videos to avoid Google trying to monetize things I don't want ads on.

[waboremo]

Very true. It really doesn't take much these days!