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> and set it to public

That's the issue. These people likely didn't affirmatively do that.




IIRC at least for a while it defaulted to unlisted and then at some point YouTube changed all unlisted videos to private which removed a lot of videos from view where the original uploader was no longer around to set the video to public.




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