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Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by Razengan »

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 one of the reasons I will probably always dislike Google for.

They bought an existing service, made few improvements to it, made it worse in some ways, continue to ignore its major problems, and keep it artificially limited on their competitors' platforms (like not supporting the native Picture-in-Picture feature on iPad for years.)

Worst of all, because they are So Big, people are preemptively disheartened from even imagining a competitor.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

#42

Post by reportingsjr »

encom wrote: post #31
syshum wrote: post #5

Earlier 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

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.

Yeaaahhhh, bitchute is definitely worse having YouTube as a monopoly.

Bitchute is absolutely full of racists, conspiracy theories, and just awful people in general. I wouldn't touch it with a 2m stick.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

londons_explore wrote: post #4

I 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…

Agreed.

The co-timed arrival of the email about his GSuite account, and the removal of the YouTube (which GSuite support said was coincidental and unrelated) seems likely to be the product of a malicious activist working through the OP's accounts trying to cause trouble.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

#44

Post by Fellshard »

tehwebguy wrote: post #12
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.

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.

Google's leadership cares greatly about the opinions of the elites around them. Bubble-driven prioritization?

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

Non24Throw wrote: post #39
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 mon…

If a business can't survive treating humans like humans, perhaps it shouldn't exist.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by zozbot234 »

reportingsjr wrote: post #42
encom wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeaaahhhh, bitchute is definitely worse having YouTube as a monopoly. Bitchute is absolutely full of racists, conspiracy theories, and just awful people in general. I wouldn't touch it with a 2m stick.

Well, you know the drill. First they came for the racists and conspiracy theorists...

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by donmcronald »

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.

I don't think Google is too far ahead. You don't have to compete with all of YouTube.

I think LTT has the right idea with FloatPlane. If you can siphon off premium users that are willing to pay for premium channels you're getting the most valuable part of the system anyway (premium content and paying users).

IMHO anyone starting or running a video content business should be viewing YouTube as a great way to externalize costs while starting up and as a way to generate some revenue off users that aren't willing to pay once you're established. The goal from day 1 should be to build a following and then to move all your premium users to another platform.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by joering2 »

Razengan wrote: post #41
maceurt wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 one of the reasons I will probably always dislike Google for. They bought an existing service, made few improvements to it, made it worse in some ways, continue to ignore its major problems, and keep it artificially limited on their competitors' platforms (like not supporting the native Picture-in-Picture feature on iPad for years.) Worst of all, because they are So Big, people are preemptively disheartene…

Is the business even profitable? They claim youtube made $5 billion in revenue ads last 3 months but they don’t provide net numbers. Their typical text ad weights approx 250 kb in size (including all JS junk) and ther profit margin is “only” 23%. I doubt pushing 4k content for 15 minutes and serving one 15 cents ad puts them in green.
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