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Re: YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly

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Post by evilksandr »

1) At the blocking moment I had only 2 videos (just screen records) on my channel which showed the same problem in 2 different Grammarly products 2) these videos were an illustration for my report https://hackerone.com/reports/1282282, which Grammarly disclosed to the public and does not consider this a problem. 3) these videos were published after Grammarly representatives allowed me to release this information 4) in the description of the video there were links to the HackerOne case for the problem and to my blog https://evilksandr.medium.com/7bdb343c956b with a detailed study of this problem 5) the video was posted for educational purposes only and without malicious intent I believe that my channel was blocked by mistake. Please, anyone who knows somebody from YT/G team, tag them in my tweet.

Re: YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly

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Post by altdataseller »

Sosh101 wrote: post #3

I wonder how much money Grammarly have spent with youtube.

I read somewhere they are among their top 10 advertisers. So this is not a good look for YouTube.

Hope someone from Google chimes in because this is a PR disaster in the making

Re: YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly

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Post by usr1106 »

altdataseller wrote: post #4
Sosh101 wrote: post #3

I wonder how much money Grammarly have spent with youtube.

I read somewhere they are among their top 10 advertisers. So this is not a good look for YouTube. Hope someone from Google chimes in because this is a PR disaster in the making

I don't think that I have ever seen a single ad for Grammarly on Youtube. Well, Google proably knows that I don't live in an English speaking country.

I do see Grammarly ads if I search things like "practice or practise" because I write English every work day.

Well, I use Firefox account containers and auto cookie delete everywhere. So Youtube knows little about me writing English.

Many people outside the English-speaking world will never see those adds. Your search bubble is not others.

Despite that, even in the search bubbles containing Grammarly I doubt closing an account with 3 videos will do any significant PR damage to anyone.

So what where the videos about? Grammarly storing everything the user writes??? Selling it to others???

Re: YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly

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Post by usr1106 »

It's called surveillance capitalism for a reason. Remember it's also totalitarianism, you don't have free speech when using free services. (libre vs. free)

Edit: Of course lack of free speech is what Trumpists complain about, too. I say the same although I would use free speech for very different content.

Re: YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly

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Post by usr1106 »

amelius wrote: post #5
Sosh101 wrote: post #3

I wonder how much money Grammarly have spent with youtube.

I also wonder how many users they have.

In what sense? Ridiculously few or overwhelmingly many?

Honest question of someone using mostly local free software (as not in the cloud, as in free speech, not beer) and not living in an English-speaking country.

Re: YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed issue in Grammarly

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Post by ballenf »

evilksandr wrote: post #2

1) At the blocking moment I had only 2 videos (just screen records) on my channel which showed the same problem in 2 different Grammarly products 2) these videos were an illustration for my report https://hackerone.com/reports/1282282 , which Grammarly disclosed to the public and does not consider this a problem. 3) these videos were published after Grammarly representatives allowed me to release this information 4)…

Why did you consider tricking the plagiarism detection engine a hack? Seems more like just one of probably several or even dozens of ways to trick the detection engine.

While I applaud your work and clearly think the channel suspension is BS, I just don't know that I would have thought "HackerOne" when I discovered the issue.

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