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Poster:	TL7	Date:	Jul 14, 2018 9:15am
Forum:	faqs	Subject:	Wayback: Please archive YouTube comments (AJAX extraloaded contents).

/all_comments?v= has been removed in late 2015 (redirects to /watch?v=) and since YouTube enforced AJAX onto their comments, which is a deadly sin for the Wayback crawler, the Wayback Machine fails archiving YouTube comments.

Archive.Today is not nearly as large as Wayback Machine, and partially lost it's ability to capture YouTube comments.


Another thing is that the YouTube webpage source code tricks the Wayback into not capturing thumbnails but referring to the live thumbnail, which unfortunately looks like the following:
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, which means the information is gone.