If you are choosing to use Google products, you are choosing to solidify their monopolist position and they will thank you by randomly killing your account. Don’t use Google products.
Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
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Re: Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
#82Sometimes I wish it would all just burn down so we could have a do over. The currently players in the market aren't good stewards.
Re: Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
#83When Poland was in the Soviet bloc (post-WWII until 1989), there was the "Main Office for the Control of Press, Publications, and Performances." Every censor working there was known by their full name, and you could even negotiate with them on certain issues when publishing a book, movie, etc. This was classic censorship but based on some old-fashioned rules. Now, Big Tech can censor your work while providing only a…
Digital Dictatorship.
Which is worse, Big Brother or lots of little brothers?
Let's try both!
Re: Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
#84When Poland was in the Soviet bloc (post-WWII until 1989), there was the "Main Office for the Control of Press, Publications, and Performances." Every censor working there was known by their full name, and you could even negotiate with them on certain issues when publishing a book, movie, etc. This was classic censorship but based on some old-fashioned rules. Now, Big Tech can censor your work while providing only a…
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Re: Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
#86Might be moot, but the shutdown email mentions "spam, scam or deceptive practices", not just "reasons". Without any context about the owner of the channel, the reader has no way to know how unfair the shutdown is. I understand from the HN thread that the dev is well known and that the shutdown seems unfair - but it's always hard to share the outrage in this situation. Best of luck to the channel's owner - let's hope…
> but it's always hard to share the outrage in this situation
I'm not really sure what makes raging about this so hard for you. Current YouTube practice is equivalent to locking up a citizen for "thievery" and "reasons" without providing any evidence of such at any point.
And sure, few hundreds years ago this course of action would fly. But today we advanced a bit and demand that our justice is a bit more just. I don't see why we should demand less of the corporations. Or do we just accept their role as a pocket of feudalism in modern society? Accepting undemocratic small planned economies of corporations is one thing, accepting customers to be their serfs is another.
Re: Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
#87I'm a fellow audio dev and I have a hard time understanding who they even made MAD, they look very innocuous. Only thing I can see is they have one Bluesky post celebrating Independence day for Ukraine. That's it.
This is either a test shot, or some private grudge, and an obvious SWATting using YouTube automated systems. Someone tip off Google? This is beyond egregious. I started digging through their social media posts expecting they'd be some kind of noisy advocate, but nada. They seem totally innocuous and most of what they have to say, even in replies, is about their synth design work.
Even if I was missing something, I saw nothing TOS-violating or even within the same universe as that. Is this the new normal?
Re: Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Digital Dictatorship.
Which is worse, Big Brother or lots of little brothers? Let's try both!
What free market advocates fail to accept is that an unregulated monopoly position, whether it was arrived at "fairly" or "unfairly", includes Big Brother, bureaucracy and whatever other malpractice is profitable, every time. Because the choice of whether to pay a price for mutually beneficial provision of goods and services is gone through whatever mechanism is sustaining the monopoly. The benefits of a market disappear; Participation is no longer voluntary. Monopolies are the worst combination of traits typically associated with corporate and government organizations.
Re: Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
#89Might be moot, but the shutdown email mentions "spam, scam or deceptive practices", not just "reasons". Without any context about the owner of the channel, the reader has no way to know how unfair the shutdown is. I understand from the HN thread that the dev is well known and that the shutdown seems unfair - but it's always hard to share the outrage in this situation. Best of luck to the channel's owner - let's hope…
I've had good luck with Firefox, ublock origin, and sponsorblock. Can't remember the last time I saw an ad, automated or otherwise. There's also an extension that changes your default page to "subscriptions" instead of "home." I do recall using the ad blocker to hide the side panel of video recommendations, too. At least for now, youtube really is a free ride for me.
Have you ever tried out librewolf? It's blue!
Re: Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
> can't even imagine how an algorithm thought it runs afoul of a spam or scam policy Could a competitor cause the algorithm to think that, somehow, perhaps by engaging a service that reports the videos, in bulk, repeatedly from a seemingly diverse set of user accounts?
The market is not that nasty, AFAIK. It's all pretty niche. And YT isn't the biggest marketing channel for this segment, I think. The forums have lively discussions of plugins by people that understand and use the stuff, and whose previous contributions you can easily look up.
It doesn't have to be due to "the market". It just takes one channel owner who thinks that sinevibes is unfairly stealing their attention and decides to be staggeringly petty about it.