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Store files as YouTube videos == infinite disk space

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Infinite-Storage-Glitch – Use YouTube as cloud storage for any files | Feb 2023

This has been done many times in the past, one popular tool: https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive

A man who uploaded 2M videos to YouTube [video] | May 2022

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Encode your data/backups into a video

An old idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid

Store on YouTube for free instead of paying for terabytes on Google Drive.

Also been done: https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive

Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes | Aug 2020

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https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive

Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64 | May 2019

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Here is an implementation of arbitrary data storage using YouTube videos: https://github.com/dzhang314/YouTubeDrive