RadiTube Browser Extension

View the metadata and transcripts of removed YouTube videos

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View the metadata and transcripts of removed YouTube videos

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YouTube's moderation policy is opaque and the platform rarely discloses which video's have been removed. This browser extension tries to add clarity by providing the metadata (titles, descriptions, transcripts etc) of removed YouTube video's.

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Hi Product Hunt, This extension is mainly intended for journalists, researchers, and future historians, but I thought this might be interesting for some of you as well. Right now, historians can go to an archive and find back historical records that are hundreds of years old. Yet, when YouTube removes a video that had a massive impact on parts of our society just a week, there isn't a single trace left. We tried to fix that by saving the metadata (titles, descriptions, transcripts, channel name, etc.) before YouTube removes those videos and store them on Arweave. Right now, we indexed over 80.000 removed videos, and we are rapidly expanding that. Some of the metadata we indexed include the anti-vaccine channels that YouTube removed a couple of days ago (Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Mercola) and many of the QAnon channels that we're removed. Some sample links to try this extension on:

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5yr ago

all your video links are invalid

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5yr ago

RadiTube Browser Extension

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@apgohan Hi Aditya, yes all the links are pointing to videos that have been removed from YouTube because they did not comply with their ToS. The goal of this extension is that you could visit the video (e.g. https://youtu.be/2hjAwC_SMFY) and you would still see at least the metadata of that removed video.

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