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Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by encom »

syshum wrote: post #5
aritmo wrote: post #3

What you can do, is upvote the article so that eventually some YouTube engineer happens to see it. Not much else to do.

>>>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

https://www.bitchute.com/

You can have it automatically pull content from your YouTube channel to your BitChute channel. Make sure to let your viewers know about it in advance, so when Google pulls the rug out from under you, for no reason, they know where to find your content.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

#32

Post by amiga_500 »

maceurt wrote: post #30
Others wrote: post #21

I love Google's products, and I put up with the fact that they harvest my data. But to have such terrible support for their services is absolutely ludicrous. I've seen too many stories of people losing their content, email addresses, services they rely on, or livelihoods. All because Google is too cheap to provide a reasonable way for customers to talk to a person about their problem. I understand this is expensive a…

It would be cool if anybody else could make a real competitor to youtube then Google would have to actually cater more to content creators. However, sadly I think youtube is just too far ahead and google has way to many resources and time spent in the space for any competitor to even be able to make a dent into youtube's market.

This is why they don't have to care. They have an effective monopoly.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by downerending »

grishka wrote: post #24
wegs wrote: post #9

Which 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…

Actually, when it comes to getting any kind of support from Google, connections are of paramount importance. I've seen countless stories of people having problems with their Google Play developer accounts, for example being terminated for no reason and hitting the wall trying to appeal the way they suggest. Yet, if you know anyone from Google's developer relations, you'll usually have all your issues figured out in n…

That's nice when it works. (Didn't for me.)

But it's absolutely no way to run a business. Pass.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by govHlthcareLol »

quellhorst wrote: post #18

You 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.

Emails aren't safe. I have a large following, but if 0.1% of people mark you as Spam, you lose your abilities to send.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by cloudking »

Others wrote: post #21

I love Google's products, and I put up with the fact that they harvest my data. But to have such terrible support for their services is absolutely ludicrous. I've seen too many stories of people losing their content, email addresses, services they rely on, or livelihoods. All because Google is too cheap to provide a reasonable way for customers to talk to a person about their problem. I understand this is expensive a…

They have Google One subscription which gives you direct support. It's hard to scale free support to billions of users.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by malka »

maceurt wrote: post #30
Others wrote: post #21

I love Google's products, and I put up with the fact that they harvest my data. But to have such terrible support for their services is absolutely ludicrous. I've seen too many stories of people losing their content, email addresses, services they rely on, or livelihoods. All because Google is too cheap to provide a reasonable way for customers to talk to a person about their problem. I understand this is expensive a…

It would be cool if anybody else could make a real competitor to youtube then Google would have to actually cater more to content creators. However, sadly I think youtube is just too far ahead and google has way to many resources and time spent in the space for any competitor to even be able to make a dent into youtube's market.

youtube is a huge moneysink. not only would it be hard to build, it would never bring money.

Google has entrenched themselves in a monopoly here. I think antitrust laws should be applied.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by tartoran »

cloudking wrote: post #35
Others wrote: post #21

I love Google's products, and I put up with the fact that they harvest my data. But to have such terrible support for their services is absolutely ludicrous. I've seen too many stories of people losing their content, email addresses, services they rely on, or livelihoods. All because Google is too cheap to provide a reasonable way for customers to talk to a person about their problem. I understand this is expensive a…

They have Google One subscription which gives you direct support. It's hard to scale free support to billions of users.

Yes but its not that billions of users have this kind of problem or at least of this magnitude. But do they care? Probably not... they are an basically an advertising platform with chaotic products that suddently are cut off and so on...

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by falcolas »

cloudking wrote: post #35
Others wrote: post #21

I love Google's products, and I put up with the fact that they harvest my data. But to have such terrible support for their services is absolutely ludicrous. I've seen too many stories of people losing their content, email addresses, services they rely on, or livelihoods. All because Google is too cheap to provide a reasonable way for customers to talk to a person about their problem. I understand this is expensive a…

They have Google One subscription which gives you direct support. It's hard to scale free support to billions of users.

This begs the question: should they be offering a service they are unable to support?

Or perhaps we should shut up and be content they offer the service at all, no matter the impact to a “minority” of lives?

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by Non24Throw »

Others wrote: post #21

I love Google's products, and I put up with the fact that they harvest my data. But to have such terrible support for their services is absolutely ludicrous. I've seen too many stories of people losing their content, email addresses, services they rely on, or livelihoods. All because Google is too cheap to provide a reasonable way for customers to talk to a person about their problem. I understand this is expensive a…

I’m not speaking on behalf of Google and I’m only speculating, but I think what you’re proposing could increase the per-user cost of service 10x or even 100+x, and could easily invalidate their entire revenue model and put them out of business

If a customer makes 1 phone call to support every few months because their Wifi is down and they think it’s Google’s problem, they would probably be losing a huge amount of money on that customer (relative to per-customer revenue)

Amazon only does this so well because they have so much revenue per transaction, and those transactions already necessitate a paying relationship directly with the customer, so it’s trivial to distribute the cost of support across all transactions as a minor and unarticulated fee

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