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Costing google money rule (media.kbin.social)

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[–] priapus 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

There's a tool that allows you to store files on youtube by encoding any data into a video. That's a good use of Google's storage imo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ensuring how to get the same file back from the video is what might be the tricky part, thanks to YT's compression algorithms. I don't know if the hash of a downloaded video is the same as the uploaded original, supposing it's downloaded at the same resolution and FPS