YouTube to ban accounts that are not commercially viable
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#2I, for one, welcome our new youtube TOS rationalization overlords.
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#3Where exactly does it say this? I did not see a statement in my skimming
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#4IOW it means they can kick you off if you cost them too much money.
Which is fully reasonable for a private company. Unfortunately people have treated YouTube like a utility that makes them a living.
It would be great to see PeerTube (and other ActivityPub-based federated open-source software social networks) grow and improve to the point it is a viable replacement.
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#5Where exactly does it say this? I did not see a statement in my skimming
[...] Terminations by YouTube for Service Changes
YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable. [...]
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#6They must have already had some provision to use for those cases, right? I can't imagine that if i uploaded a 24/7 feed of a tree growing they'd have let me do that forever.
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#7Where exactly does it say this? I did not see a statement in my skimming
[...] Terminations by YouTube for Service Changes YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable. [...]
That isn't in the changes though, which the title suggested.
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#8I don’t speak English well enough but phrase “to ban” sounds like YouTube is actually going to ban, while in fact YouTube only reserves the right to ban. But the latter is not clickbaity enough.
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#9They must have already had some provision to use for those cases, right? I can't imagine that if i uploaded a 24/7 feed of a tree growing they'd have let me do that forever.
I think they are probably going to delete all these endless and useless video game streams.
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