Google has issued initial warnings regarding inactive accounts, those untouched for at least two years. In three weeks, the updated Inactive Google Account Policy will come into...

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  • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Nah, newer content is significantly more costly than older content, specially as Google can simply decide to show ads regardless.

    Old YouTube content is what? 480p? 720p at most? They have already re-encoded their entire video library, it’s super efficient. The real storage hogs are the modern 4K, 8K, HDR, 60 FPS video files.