YouTube can terminate anyone they deem “not commercially viable”
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#2Isn't Youtube still unprofitable? It always seemed too good to be true to let everyone upload their petabytes of useless videos that receive 3 views and never generate any revenue for anyone.
Maybe the days of free storage are just ending.
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#3It's not really clear on what The Service is, is it youtube of all of google services?
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#4I don't think there's any problem here.
Nothing lives forever and YT is not PG&E, it may shutdown and never return. Similar things happened before, e.g., MSN Spaces, myspaces, etc.
It's actually a good thing to say this upfront.
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#5For what it's worth, the terms and conditions in other Google products such as Chrome, Chrome OS, and Android Studio already include similar language. I don't believe this clause was added specifically for YouTube.
[1] Google Chrome Terms of Service - 12.2 Google may at any time, terminate its legal agreement with you if ... (E) the provision of the Services to you by Google is, in Google’s opinion, no longer commercially viable. https://www.google.com/intl/en_sg/chrome/privacy/eula_text.h...
[2] Google Chrome OS Terms - 11.2 Google may at any time, terminate its legal agreement with you if ... (E) the provision of the Software or Services to you by Google is, in Google’s opinion, no longer commercially viable. https://www.google.com/chromebook/termsofservice.html
[3] Android Software Development Kit License Agreement - 9.3 Google may at any time, terminate the License Agreement with you if ... (D) Google decides to no longer provide the SDK or certain parts of the SDK to users in the country in which you are resident or from which you use the service, or the provision of the SDK or certain SDK services to you by Google is, in Google's sole discretion, no longer commercially viable. https://developer.android.com/studio/terms
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#6So, Does this mean that the YouTube has a clause to ban your account if you are using ad blocker? I would say that a person with numerous subscriptions and watches YouTube daily (non ad block user) would be considered commercially viable.
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#7So, Does this mean that the YouTube has a clause to ban your account if you are using ad blocker? I would say that a person with numerous subscriptions and watches YouTube daily (non ad block user) would be considered commercially viable.
Accounts are free and if you are not uploading completely unnecessary. You can still access the RSS feeds for each channel regardless if you have an account or not.
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#8I don't think there's any problem here. Nothing lives forever and YT is not PG&E, it may shutdown and never return. Similar things happened before, e.g., MSN Spaces, myspaces, etc. It's actually a good thing to say this upfront.
I think this is not about the service shutting down.
It’s about the service terminating accounts for selected unprofitable users only.
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#9Isn't Youtube still unprofitable? It always seemed too good to be true to let everyone upload their petabytes of useless videos that receive 3 views and never generate any revenue for anyone. Maybe the days of free storage are just ending.
If you got to make money, you got to make money - Thats okay.
Major worry here being if I dont be a "money earning user" for Youtube i.e. I have ad blocker and I do not monetize / upload videos, will I lose access to ALL my Google products? (All being analytics, webmaster tools, gmail being 3 main ones)
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#10So, Does this mean that the YouTube has a clause to ban your account if you are using ad blocker? I would say that a person with numerous subscriptions and watches YouTube daily (non ad block user) would be considered commercially viable.
Accounts are free and if you are not uploading completely unnecessary. You can still access the RSS feeds for each channel regardless if you have an account or not.
Someone recently [1] got his Google account (think Gmail, Docs, etc) banned for watching YouTube without ads via some Android app.
[1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/2723
Upd: added link