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YouTube can terminate anyone they deem “not commercially viable”

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Re: YouTube can terminate anyone they deem “not commercially viable”

#11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Accounts are free and if you are not uploading completely unnecessary. You can still access the RSS feeds for each channel regardless if you have an account or not.

Someone recently [1] got his Google account (think Gmail, Docs, etc) banned for watching YouTube without ads via some Android app. [1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/2723 Upd: added link

Source?

Re: YouTube can terminate anyone they deem “not commercially viable”

#12
To me this means that Google are within their rights to remove access to a system that THEY deem to be not commercially viable.

Rather than "hey, you're not making us any money, you can no longer access Youtube" it's more "hey, this service we're offering you is costing us more to run than we make out of it, so we're going to shut it down".

People are reading this wrong IMHO.

Re: YouTube can terminate anyone they deem “not commercially viable”

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone recently [1] got his Google account (think Gmail, Docs, etc) banned for watching YouTube without ads via some Android app. [1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/2723 Upd: added link

Source?

It was posted here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759

Re: YouTube can terminate anyone they deem “not commercially viable”

#15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Accounts are free and if you are not uploading completely unnecessary. You can still access the RSS feeds for each channel regardless if you have an account or not.

Someone recently [1] got his Google account (think Gmail, Docs, etc) banned for watching YouTube without ads via some Android app. [1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/2723 Upd: added link

That was never verified.

Re: YouTube can terminate anyone they deem “not commercially viable”

#16
https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1193988444873060352

> The section of our Terms that you're referring to is not about terminating an account if it’s not making enough money – it's about discontinuing certain YouTube features or parts of the service, e.g. removing outdated/low usage features. This does not impact anyone in new ways!

Told ya.

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