You Can Store Your Data on YouTube as Digital Noise
Will humanity ever have enough digital storage? It seems unlikely, but YouTuber HistidineDwarf came up with a clever way to take advantage of Google’s vast cloud storage capabilities without having to pay for the privilege. Instead of uploading files to Google Drive, they compressed them to a single file and encoded them into a video uploaded to YouTube that ends up looking like random noise. The downsides: it’s incredibly slow, and the video files being uploaded are four times larger than the original data encoded within.
