Title. I have a YouTube channel since 2009, been uploading videos to it since 2010. I deleted many videos I've uploaded to it years ago, because as I grew older my tastes changed. I believe I might have deleted more than 40 videos from my channel in one big purge one day, many years ago. However, nowadays I sort of regret it because those old videos, despite how bad they were, they are part of my life story, and I want to have them back. I know Google says once a video is deleted off YouTube it is gone forever, but I also heard that every video that is uploaded to YouTube, even if it is deleted, stays on Google's servers forever in some way. In fact, I remember many years ago (circa 2014) there was a website that claimed to be able to search, find and play deleted YouTube videos. I think I even tested this website back then and it worked. This is probably futile, but is there any legit way to recover those old YouTube videos I deleted from my own channel? PS: No, I don't have a backup pf my Channel on the Wayback Machine.