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Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by zarriak »

malka wrote: post #36
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 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.

How are you going to enforce antitrust upon something that costs 0 to consume and pays some people who post upon it?

I think that ideally the legal problems that lead to stuff like content-id being necessary should be resolved so that you could theoretically have competitors but why should the thing that is a huge moneysink be forcibly removed from the company that sustains it?

I am definitely in the top 1% of people that hate Google but I fear that anyone besides Google would be pruning videos from Youtube at an amazing clip.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by EdwardDiego »

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

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>>>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.

I honestly read that as BitchUte - cultural differences, huh. (A ute is parlance in my country for what Americans call a pickup).

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by EdwardDiego »

ffhhj wrote: post #50

Meanwhile monetized animal abuse channels for children keep growing... because they make money: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4PpFUrfT2Pou7OwpVF0MUQ Shameful!

In my country she would've been investigated by the animal cruelty people already.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by dralley »

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 require 60-120 megabytes of RAM just to show a couple of lines of text on the screen. It's absolutely pathetic.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by simcop2387 »

michaelt wrote: post #67
Razengan wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> made very few improvements to it, Before the acquisition Youtube were getting their ass kicked about all the copyright violation on the site, they were losing money, they had no ad revenue sharing with video creators, they only supported low-resolution video, and only in an Adobe Flash player. All of which changed after the acquisition. I would agree, of course, that there's plenty wrong with Youtube these days, an…

> ... only in an Adobe Flash player

To be fair with this one, this was the only reasonable way to do video in a browser for a stupidly long time.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by mirimir »

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…

> Which is why I would never trust Google for any business functions.

Which is why I'd never trust Google for anything.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by jimmaswell »

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.

Something that stands out as representing the bad UI as a whole is this ridiculous menu under the upload button on YouTube. A vague, textless icon that you're supposed to guess means upload which is completely pointless when the two sub-items could have just been put into all that wasted space to the left of it.

Current state of affairs: https://i.imgur.com/rJi6LHR.png

Mockup in 30 seconds in mspaint of the obvious improvement: https://i.imgur.com/nfrgYQF.png

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by mirimir »

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.

That's a good sign, actually. Because it means that you'd need to push pretty hard to get banned.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by qroshan »

thelittleone wrote: post #75
falcolas wrote: post #38

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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?

I just went through password recovery for my 10 year old sons gmail account. They ask a few security questions then ask for the recovery email address. It sends a login code to the recovery address. I input that code back on gmail site and it says “sorry we could not recover your account”. Why send the code to the recovery email address if it’s not going to work?

10 year olds can't have gmail account. If your son entered the correct date of birth, it is permanently lost

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by cschep »

zeeZ wrote: post #51
cloudking wrote: post #35

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

What do you do if you can't access your Google One subscription because they've terminated your Google account for posting an emoji in a YouTube live stream, for example?

which emoji? :)
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