Yep be your own archive. Every few weeks slap that download folder into a deep storage drive. Name it with basic descriptors.

Oh shit that thing I remembers can’t be found or the site went through enshittification for their IPO or government said something bad. That cool youtube video from 10 years ago has been degraded to 140p …I thought it was in 1080p back then. Thanks gooogle!

Ok to the personal archives. Search well there’s the copies. Lets upload that to whatever is [not shit]