So a deflection and a personal attack rather than an actual answer, that explains a lot.

I’ll just assume yes and save us both some back and forth.

No need for a follow up non-reply , i won’t see it.

… just to be clear, you think “South East Asia” refers to it’s location relative to europe and not it’s relative location to the rough centre of Asia ?

So, south america is called that because it’s … south of europe ?

It’s somewhat of a catch, that’s generally how monopolistic moats work but you really shouldn’t be relying on google as a backup service for obscure videos you wish to keep.

I’ve no idea of the amount of lectures, guides, documentaries and other non-entertainment media that is available exclusively on youtube, but again it isn’t an archiving service.

They can, will and have deleted whole channels for various reasons, most of which were bullshit, if you find something you absolutely have to keep, download it.

That being said, the process of downloading, archiving and curating content on anything more than a trivial scale can be much more involved than it seems, especially if you want backups/redundancy.

I’ve never been a big youtube user so my opinion on this is coloured by the fact that i don’t have that much invested in the platform.

Literally any other form of entertainment.

Though the statement was to stop using it, not replace it.