@Risotto is right

they will adjust

Yes, you can create such a vieo.

this way the YT algorithm can not read the file, but people in the know can

It sounds like a wacky example, but I like those kind of thought experiments. Let's go there.

the issue is, do we want them to adjust after all they did?

if this was automatable

but also exclusive so youtube cant also get those decryption keys

that could be interesting

I think this is very close to watermarking and data stenciling, I believe it's called, which is basically hiding data in files.

It's pretty easy to do. For example, a GIF has headers that let the image library know where the picture ends, so additional data at the end of the file will not bother standard compliant libraries.

So, you can append as much data to the end of the GIF as you like, upload it, nobody knows, and your data is at the end of the file.

For example, I tried this on Minds and other social media services. I made a zip file in which I put some random cat memes, uploaded it to Minds, and my friend downloaded it, unzipped the file and got the cat memes out.

The GIF was only 1 pixel in size.

So, it is not too hard to hide data in a video stream, by watermarking. You can create any kind of pattern in your video, but it might make it harder, because many services will transcode your data first.

YouTube, for example, will transcode your video to MP4 and AAC codec, so your data will likely get lost, as the transcoder only grabs the data it knows about.

thats not new

aye, but you have different codecs, and what i am saying is that you use the literal footage not something added they might trow away

Other sites use a library called PNGCRUSH, which performs a similar function, and reduces extraneous data before storing and serving the image.

like,t heres software with algorythingms that scans files for hiden files inside file formats

@Risotto I think that might be a bit much. They are right now horrible but I think they were worse before the, “party flip” or whatever they call it

like.. uploading static

No, that's not new. I am not saying it is. I am just answering the quesiton.

but then, depending on the pattern, you can watch the actual video

Right. That's not too hard to program.

they cant just toss away literal video data, thats whats actually being requested to be played

they proccess video data

and images

For example, QR codes just encode images. You could write a plugin that transforms each image on the fly and renders the "hidden" video.

upon upload

In computer security this is very similar to what is known as a "side channel".

@Deleted User Yes, I know. But, it could be in the video frame itself. For example, QR codes encode URLs. You can create an arbitrary encoding for data that you then display in each frame.

Even just morse code. They then represent bits.

It might not be very compact, but creating such a "coded" video is doable.

You could even go so far that it only makes sense if the watchers have a particular private key.

It would look like static, unless you have the decryption key. It's not so different from the encoding that TV channels used.

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Anyway. It's pretty wacky, but I am just going along with the thought experiment.

yea but all that encoded data

is going to be stored in a server