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Could you share an example of a YouTube video that does not have an upload date? I watch quite a lot of YouTube and very frequently look up the date that video

Could you share an example of a YouTube video that does not have an upload date? I watch quite a lot of YouTube and very frequently look up the date that videos were uploaded. I've never found this information to be missing.

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albert_e 5y ago
I stumbled across this recently and was puzzled. If I find that link / another example I will share here. <placeholder> But this definitely is a feature of YouTube where content creators have an option to hide the date. I googled and found the documentation for this feature.
- exikyut 5y ago
  https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/4006094/how-can-i-hide-the-date-the-video-was-published https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/4006094/how-can-i-...: > Q: How can I hide the date the video was published? (Posted 4/12/19) > A: That is not an option that is available.*
  - ivank 5y ago
    Not sure if this is OP's case, but YouTube has the rare video with no metadata visible whatsoever (tested web): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg0_4EmHLCo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg0_4EmHLCo
    - exikyut 5y ago
      Woow, thanks very much for this piece of interestingness. What even is this? Even ad rolls (if you dig out the video id) have some sort of interesting "noone will see this" title :) And random apps on the Play Store also have video titles. Adding the video to Watch Later by replaying the request using cURL seems to work, at which point I can add the video to a playlist to find it later (yay), and also click through to see the uploader: https://www.youtube.com/user/GameloftVideos https://www.youtube.com/user/GameloftVideos Except for the bit where it says "This channel is not available" using the YouTube design from a few years ago and displays absolutely nothing, the account is perfectly normal, nothing to see here. Wow. What even is this?? [Edit: just realized I forgot I said that above. I'm leaving it in :P]

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albert_e 5y ago

I stumbled across this recently and was puzzled. If I find that link / another example I will share here. <placeholder> But this definitely is a feature of YouTube where content creators have an option to hide the date. I googled and found the documentation for this feature.

exikyut 5y ago
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/4006094/how-can-i-hide-the-date-the-video-was-published https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/4006094/how-can-i-...: > Q: How can I hide the date the video was published? (Posted 4/12/19) > A: That is not an option that is available.*
- ivank 5y ago
  Not sure if this is OP's case, but YouTube has the rare video with no metadata visible whatsoever (tested web): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg0_4EmHLCo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg0_4EmHLCo
  - exikyut 5y ago
    Woow, thanks very much for this piece of interestingness. What even is this? Even ad rolls (if you dig out the video id) have some sort of interesting "noone will see this" title :) And random apps on the Play Store also have video titles. Adding the video to Watch Later by replaying the request using cURL seems to work, at which point I can add the video to a playlist to find it later (yay), and also click through to see the uploader: https://www.youtube.com/user/GameloftVideos https://www.youtube.com/user/GameloftVideos Except for the bit where it says "This channel is not available" using the YouTube design from a few years ago and displays absolutely nothing, the account is perfectly normal, nothing to see here. Wow. What even is this?? [Edit: just realized I forgot I said that above. I'm leaving it in :P]