YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

Post by ashtonkem » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 3:16 AM UTC

dralley wrote: post #84

ashtonkem wrote: post #62

I honestly kind of hate most of Google’s products. While they are incredibly reliable, they often have inconsistent and poor UX, and are liable to either cancel or change the entire UI on a whim.

Redesigned Gmail is ludicrously slow and glitchy in so many ways that old-Gmail was not. According to about:performance, not only is it consistently the most demanding tab in terms of CPU (usually by a wide margin), but it also uses nearly double the memory of Youtube, which is itself also much more bloated than it used to be. Google is supposed to hire the best and brightest engineers around, yet apparently they req…

Post by geitir » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 3:31 AM UTC

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #45

I liked how Google's pro-forma email didn't fill in the blank as to why they flagged the account ... but they still sent that message. Surely that's a pretty easy failure to capture, I'm surprised Google can't spot such failures.

Post by dannyw » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 3:40 AM UTC

mceachen wrote: post #141

superasn wrote: post #79

I have all my photos including many precious pics like my daughter's first birthday, etc backed up only with Google photos (as GPhotos often cleans up my phones it removes the original too). Post like these are a true wake up call. I definitely need to setup something like syncthing to backup at least one more to good old usb 1tb drive. I guess you should too if you're in the same boat.

Make sure you get a Google Takeout, but realize that much of the image metadata is deleted (and sometimes outright changed) from the originals. My takeout failed with an write until I requested an archive that was only photos, and only a year-subset of my library (which required me to make a manual album). I also tried the open source "timeliner" project, (which does incremental backups very conveniently), but due to…

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 3:54 AM UTC

zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #129

hpcjoe wrote: post #116

I keep hearing stories about similar issues. Suddenly someone is terminated from a Google service for unknown reasons, without any possibility of reversing such decisions. This appears to be true of Twitter and others as well. From my vantage point, it appears to be quite arbitrary. And quite concerning in a number of cases, given the centralization of email, docs, etc. I do make backups of google content every so of…

I think the underlying issue is that Google is under a lot of pressure from the EU and other governing bodies to police its YouTube content, Google being Google is trying to do this with algorithms, unfortunately when the algorithm gets something wrong there is seldom much recourse beyond knowing someone on the inside or being able to raise a big enough stink on Twitter. But this is nothing new, so I think you have t…

Post by fortran77 » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 4:17 AM UTC

zozbot234 wrote: post #137

fortran77 wrote: post #134

It's interesting reading about what Karl Wikderquist's writings are about to get some insight into who orgranized the "report brigade" to get him banned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Widerquist#Empirical_and_...

Interesting point. There's nothing much that's outright wrong with these claims, in fact many social scientists even of a fairly libertarian bent would basically agree with them. And these days basic income is increasingly being proposed from all sides of the political spectrum.