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 @zach what if you could encrypt and upload a video to YouTube and then Flare decrypts it to play it. Then YouTube can't see what they are hosting ðŸĪ” 
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 steganographic video storage? 
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 I can't imagine YouTube allowing that for too long. What is the point, to get free hosting? 
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 Yes, defensive content storage  
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 If this can be done, and I don't know if it can, then why not also do it with Rumble, and Odysee and Vimeo, etc. for greater decentralization and content storage? 
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 Yeah for sure, all of em 
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 This is actually a great idea. The Achilles of that would be when unverified accounts can no longer upload content and verified accounts must be full kyc linked to your real identity. 
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 I'm not sure that YouTube would allow you to upload an encrypted video. Probably easier to upload it on S3 or another storage provider 
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 Check this out

https://youtu.be/_w6PCHutmb4?si=oqi-Cobhrkl66ua5 
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 Wow, that's wild 😂 
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 Also shows it can be done.

If you encode the data in the pixels, give it a plausible title, YouTube will never even know it is being used as data storage, ESPECIALLY if it is encrypted. Even if they did know, what are the odds they scan every nostr note for a ref to that video and then parse whether the note is someone simply talking about the video (innocent) or posting a decrypting reference to the video. Then repeat that process for every video on their site they suspect might be storing data. I just feel like it would be so easy to fly under that radar for a very long time. I don't even know if its technically against their TOS. Because storing videos on YouTube is data storage. They just assume it is visual data. But who cares if it isn't? ðŸŦĄ