Only channel I like on YouTube is applied sciences, hopefully it will never get deleted.
YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
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#12What you can do, is upvote the article so that eventually some YouTube engineer happens to see it. Not much else to do.
Correct, it would have to be someone going rogue. YouTube does not take action based on content creators publicly making statements.
Policy will change if a newspaper article is written about it though, ironically.
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#13You're promoting a political position which is against the financial interests of Google. Why should you expect them to give you a platform?
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#14My business is never ever going to use anything that Google provides.
But I'm happy people start to notice same .. censorship start to make basic business very difficult.
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#15The fact that the only support you get from Google is if your HN post is upvoted enough to go to the frontpage should be something that would be a red flag to any business. Guess Google don't care, support cost money, and you can't add ads in there.
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#16I would guess that someone nefarious got access to the Google account associated with that youtube account... If you can log into an account, it's pretty easy to get an account permabanned. Just paste some links to well known child porn trading sites into the description, and the account gets banned within about half an hour. Someone at my school modified a chrome extension to do that and half the schools youtube acc…
Give that guy a Blue Falcon award.
Come to think of it, Cancel Culture, itself, is the ultimate Blue Falcon award.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
>>>What you can do Support Other Video hosting platforms Advise Creators to upload to multiple Platforms When Sharing links, if the content it on another platform share that instead of YT YT stays on top because people refuse to move off it
This is a great idea I can get behind. We need to decentralize away from the major tech platforms in general. Is there an index of all such alternative platforms? I know there’s https://curiositystream.com and am wondering how I discover others like it.
There's a list of alternatives for all Google services here: https://nomoregoogle.com/
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#18You don't own your social media accounts. You need to build your own brand with your own domain and collect email addresses of your customers.
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#19Another fun thing that can happen with YouTube channels is getting them banned because you used titles and thumbnails that were too similar. This can get flagged as spam, which also increases the likelihood of just getting reviewed algorithmically.
Basically no appeal process unless you can explore some unofficial means of appeal like this one.
How's that for motivation to work on your thumbnails not and naming things "Show X #1..n".
Yes, this specific issue might be automated more because of coronavirus, but the general issue is not a novel one.
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The only silver lining is that this doesn' take down your entire Google account like some YouTube bans do. (Woo!)
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#20Which is why I would never trust Google for any business functions. These things happen all the time with Google. The model is based on your value being your ad revenue. If the cost of support outweighs your future ad revenue, which it always does, you're ignored. Everything is automated, and no matter what bad decision the machine makes, you can't appeal. Unfortunately, that attitude translates to GSuite for Busines…
One of the sad hacks for businesses nowadays is finding a way to throw them money to achieve some grounds for complaining on account of being a customer.
With YouTube, you probably want to pay some money for ads so they'll look at you differently. I remember working with a client for a YouTube channel they had bought ad placements for, and it blew my mind that I could actually call a human at YouTube who would also pick up the phone immediately.
The two-tiered system of free services is so goddamn awful.