YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

Post by therealdrag0 » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 12:51 AM UTC

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.

Post by mrob » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 12:55 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 lonelappde » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 1:02 AM UTC

falcolas wrote: post #38

cloudking wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Post by ShakataGaNai » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 1:04 AM UTC

spullara wrote: post #77

sneak wrote: post #70

I lost a 12 year old Twitter account (with nearly 10k followers) last month as well. No communication whatsoever from Twitter, even after I opened a ticket about it. I'm beginning to think that publishing anywhere except my own site is foolish.

Did you change your birthday such that you were < 13 when you opened it? That is common thing that happens.

Post by nl » Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 1:05 AM UTC

joering2 wrote: post #49

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…

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.