Yeah this seems wrong, from the link it appears they definitely WILL delete YouTube videos:
> Starting later this year, if a Google Account has not been used or signed into for at least 2 years, we may delete the account and its contents – including content within Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar), YouTube and Google Photos.
This needs to be frontpage of HN for MUCH longer, this is honestly catastrophic. So much knowledge will be lost, imagine if public libraries started throwing books away if authors didn't publish any new books for 2 years.
This is insane from my perspective (though I see how it makes sense from Google's)
This needs to be talked about MUCH more, though even as I'm writing these words I doubt the utility of even discussing it - nobody except Google has the ability to even store all of this. Data hoarders are backing up Imgur prior to their purge... but Google is about to rip YouTube a new one. This looks insurmountable.
I haven't seen anything mentioning that, do you have a source for it? Old YouTube videos disappearing are my main concern from this policy change