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By iforgotpassword 2023-11-1911:343 reply Not only has this idea been around for a while as he says at the beginning, it has been implemented a couple times over already. And not just the theoretical version he did that doesn't work because of compression, but variants that try to squeeze out the maximum, add error correction, use audio too etc.
a few ones pop right up when you search things like "using YouTube as storage" but thanks to YouTube search being useless garbage nowadays I can't find the particular one I'm thinking of. It was rather long but really went into the technical details and challenges.
By Gys 2023-11-1912:09 I found this three year old explainer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu2O-iHL16Q
You mean this one?
By metadat 2023-11-1915:24 Better fork with more functionality: https://github.com/KristianAskk/Infinite-Storage-Glitch
By romusha 2023-11-1911:35 Is there any YouTube search engine that works like old youtube?
All fun and games until Google bans your account for ToS violation.
Seriously, if you actually have important stuff in your Google account I would warn against doing this. You’ll lose all of it more than likely.
By layer8 2023-11-1917:42 You can use steganography, at the cost of (much?) lower bandwidth. You can apply it to one of those “10 hours of x” videos. And of course, use a dedicated Google account.
I wonder if there'd be a stenographic way of hiding the data in a normal looking video so you wouldn't get banned for beach of TOS
By Red_Leaves_Flyy 2023-11-1919:16 Of course there is but the people doing this likely aren’t going to advertise their methods as that’ll get them undue attention.
By madbbb 2023-11-1914:09 I remember ArVid was invented in pre CD-ROM era. You could store 2gb of data on VHS videotape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid
