{"id":12627,"date":"2017-07-18T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/?p=12627"},"modified":"2017-07-18T08:54:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T13:54:03","slug":"unlisted-links-arent-quite-private-youtube-promised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/unlisted-links-arent-quite-private-youtube-promised\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlisted Links Aren\u2019t Quite as Private as YouTube Promised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Youtube offers three different privacy settings for users uploading a video to the platform: public, private, and unlisted. According to the video site, videos uploaded as unlisted won\u2019t come up in search results and also won\u2019t appear on users\u2019 channel lists. According to YouTube, the only way for individuals to access unlisted videos is if the owner has shared the link with them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read More: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/twitter-testing-anti-harassment-feature\/\"><b>Twitter is Testing an Anti-Harassment Feature<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, thanks to a few Internet masterminds, there are a select number of proven techniques for accessing unlisted content. While there\u2019s no exact way to locate specific unlisted videos, searchers with a little extra time will likely be able to find the video they\u2019re looking for. With these techniques in mind, YouTube users should be aware of the content they\u2019re posting, even if it\u2019s unlisted; nothing is private online and everything lasts forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Google Search<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though YouTube claims that unlisted content can\u2019t be accessed through an Internet search, this isn\u2019t quite true. Most unlisted videos contain the disclaimer \u201cThis video is unlisted. Only those with the link can see it.\u201d By running the google query \u201csite:youtube.com \u2018This video is unlisted. Only those with the link can see it\u2019 -inurl:all_comments,\u201d users will be able to view a limited number of unlisted videos. This technique uncovers about 70 different unlisted video results. While this approach is imperfect, it demonstrates the imprecise security of unlisted YouTube links.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Unlisted Videos<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A New Zealand website by the name of Unlisted Videos contains links to \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 unlisted videos. The site offers nearly 65,000 videos which Internet users can filter through according to all videos, random videos, and playlists. Users can also submit their own unlisted YouTube video URLs and search the website by specific channel names and keyword tags. The site follows guidelines intended to prevent privacy breaches. Under these rules, it displays unlisted videos owned by celebrities, businesses, and musicians, but not those of the average individual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Playlist View<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to one YouTube flaw, unlisted videos become visible when placed in a playlist. Videos located in the playlist will be visible to users via both the API as well as the YouTube website itself regardless of whether they have the unlisted link, but only via the playlist view. The unlisted content will still not be accessible through a search and will still not be visible on the owner\u2019s channel or uploads playlist.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youtube guarantees that unlisted content won\u2019t come up in search results and won\u2019t appear on your channel \u2014 here\u2019s how to get around that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[243,335],"class_list":["post-12627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy","tag-technology","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}