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YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription

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Re: YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription

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The OP is already banned? Whats the issue in cancelling a charge you cannot use?

Google has a degree of seperation value stored on every account. Once the algorithm determines its been wronged it increases the radius so expect your household members and work colleagues accounts to be at risk when you try this.

bullshit - canceling the authorization will have no affect on your account at all, the subscription will just end.

Re: YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription

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Easy fix, wait for the next billing, contact the bank explaining what happened, and block that and future debits. At least in Australia, this shouldn't be a problem.

I contacted TM Bank and they would't let me do this.

Might be an idea to switch to a bank or credit union that have better customer service?

Re: YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription

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The OP is already banned? Whats the issue in cancelling a charge you cannot use?

Google has a degree of seperation value stored on every account. Once the algorithm determines its been wronged it increases the radius so expect your household members and work colleagues accounts to be at risk when you try this.

For three generations, unless you watch re-education videos.

Re: YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription

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Easy fix, wait for the next billing, contact the bank explaining what happened, and block that and future debits. At least in Australia, this shouldn't be a problem.

I some countries, however, this may penalize you, credit score wise or whatever. This option, in my opinion, should truly be the last resource, after exhausting (and documenting) every other route. Very important: public routes, like Twitter Support, even better (make sure every step is traceable if the only option left is, indeed, blocking debts on your credit card).

You haven't signed any agreement or opened any lines of credit - I would be amazed if there was any jurisdiction in the entire world where this would affect your credit.

Re: YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription

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Easy fix, wait for the next billing, contact the bank explaining what happened, and block that and future debits. At least in Australia, this shouldn't be a problem.

I contacted TM Bank and they would't let me do this.

Subscriptions are not a contract of payment. Your bank pre-authorizes these payments, simply ask them to remove pre-authorization. If they can't do that, then the bank is spending your money without your consent.

Re: YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google has a degree of seperation value stored on every account. Once the algorithm determines its been wronged it increases the radius so expect your household members and work colleagues accounts to be at risk when you try this.

bullshit - canceling the authorization will have no affect on your account at all, the subscription will just end.

In Google's eyes cancelling the authorisation is robbing them because they charge in advance and they might even cop a rejected payment fee.

I agree there may be no other option, I'm just warning to be ready and prepare for the possible loss of "connected" (in Google eyes) accounts.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45157001

Re: YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription

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Had similar experience. My best guess is that the account never went through the various age verification flows (since it was that old, it predated all that) and ended up being marked for deletion- I suspect that they had a bug (legal or in code) that prevented warning emails to get out. I got lucky to detect it early, since they disabled AI a few weeks before account deletion.

My gmail account still has the "First off, welcome. And thanks for agreeing to help us test Gmail." mail in it from June 2004. The account itself is over 21 years old. I wonder if I'll get forced to age verify myself any time?

You are just a row in a database. Column can’t have nulls.

Re: YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription

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I thought exactly the same! My question: How/Why were they able to speak to a human (or maybe chat/email)?

Last year our bakery business got blocked from Google Maps. Reason: Your business is not eligible... Yep, apparently a brick and mortar bakery isn't eligible for Google Maps. Obviously bogus. I appealed over and over again, rereading the rules, watching every dumb YouTube video, fixing every minor imagined transgression I could think of and each time just got another BS automated "your business is not eligible...". P…

Damn! That is so dystopic to me. The future of businesses determined by the will of some customer support interpretations of bogus rules. Ain't that a bit black mirroresque?

Re: YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription

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500000000th person discovers google is not creating youtube for you, but for them to make cash. Crazy story. Really shocking and definitely not one of the most standard complaints in existence. Anyways, there's absolutely no such thing as "I can't stop paying for this". Just do a chargeback on your card. It's not a real problem.

The article was complaining abut AI, yet written by AI
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