The internet is a perpetually burning library of alexandria and it's almost always a corporation's fault
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currently uploaded unlisted videos will be changed to private videos and the only way to not have this happen is to actively opt out or reupload them
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tbf this one involves an actual problem of uh. pedophiles finding unlisted videos of kids doing kid things that were meant to be shared with family members. its a shit situation but it cant be placed entirely at the corporation's feet
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There are plenty of ways of doing it better - for example, contacting the uploaders to remind them the videos are public. But that takes resources away from building yet another chat app and we all know which features pay the bonus.
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They are contacting everyone impacted, but they're defaulting to not making non-public content publicly accessible via guessing the links. You get the option to make it public which preserves the existing links.
Do you think non-response should lead to private data being public?
I don't think they've chosen the wrong default and I don't understand the outrage about it. They have to choose the least bad option:
A) private data is leaked unless users override it
B) old links don't work for new users unless users override it
Do you really want option A?
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