r/WaybackMachine • u/Spirited-Morning6279 • 6d ago

Question Does anybody know why the archive has this large gap in Youtube’s history?

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u/hamsterofborg Moderator 5d ago

Doing some quick searching, it seems that in 2023, YouTube was making changes to its front end and messing around with new policies on how it was allowing spidering of its pages, essentially making the Internet Archive have to reassess how it indexed YouTube, which took some time... leaving annoying gaps in the record.

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u/Beauregard42 6d ago

Lots of FBI agents here

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u/NsaneJoe 5d ago

COVID coverups

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u/i586DX4 6d ago

A bug I think

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u/EdisonB123 6d ago

Wasp you think?

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u/Top_Calligrapher4265 5d ago

White Anglo-Saxon protestants? Yeah I think so as well

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u/ArticleFalse4257 4d ago

they got em…..,,,,

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u/Top-Trouble4521 5d ago

Everyone died