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I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next (2020)
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Re: I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next (2020)
#12If I'm understanding the attack correctly, its surprising there is not more along these lines - specifically the "trigger big tech company's automate banning against someone" attack. It wouldn't be surprising if this is fairly easy across a variety of "services"
It's been done as a trolling technique for ages.
Yeah, if I'm understanding this isn't remotely new or novel?
It's been a standard script kiddy attack since basically there were publication services where you could be banned/blocked/whatever by automated systems. Early blogs were frequent victims, surely earlier stuff was as well? Probably even basic BBSs had similar nonsense.
Re: I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next (2020)
#13While I definitely do sympathize, these might be alarm bells telling that we've given too much to these faceless corps. Maybe it's time to reimagine content sharing that has full uncensorable control of the creator and reach of today's centralized platforms, with a fair way to monetize.
Trade one extreme with it's failure modes for another extreme with different failure modes. Not sure that counts as progress.
Re: I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next (2020)
#14I released Boltstream [0] for exactly this kind of thing. It's not a Youtube replacement. It's a self-hosted replacement for Youtube Live, Facebook Live, Twitch.tv, and alike.
Re: I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next (2020)
#15Google's most excellent customer service at play.
Paying for customer service would result in less overall money than their current system of "you get nothing, we only respond if you have enough followers to generate a PR buzz". The people that aren't affected by the unjust terminations and bans obviously don't care enough to stop using the product, so they tend to not lose any money when it happens.
Re: I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next (2020)
#16Use of bots to flag and block content is getting from bad to worse.
We had a YouTube video that we manually recorded and uploaded. Some random guy no way related to it claimed copyright without any proof and YT immediate removed from listing.
The appeal process is so complicated and probably have to deal with another bot, it was not worth the process so we just ignored.
What i've learned is, if anybody want to blackmail or jealous of your channel, all they have to do is submit a request and your video will be out with an endless and almost impossible appeal process.
Re: I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next (2020)
#17Google's most excellent customer service at play.
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Re: I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next (2020)
#20Use of bots to flag and block content is getting from bad to worse. We had a YouTube video that we manually recorded and uploaded. Some random guy no way related to it claimed copyright without any proof and YT immediate removed from listing. The appeal process is so complicated and probably have to deal with another bot, it was not worth the process so we just ignored. What i've learned is, if anybody want to blackm…
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