YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
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Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
#2Here's a note for everyone:
> I do have backup archives of many of the videos and they will be back online again as soon as possible. Unfortunately, I was not diligent enough in keeping backups — especially early on. I am missing the following 21 videos ...
Another reminder, yet again, not to trust "Cloud Services" and always to have a copy of data you care about.
I hope the problem gets resolved and the channel is restored, I hope we get to hear what happens.
Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
#3What you can do, is upvote the article so that eventually some YouTube engineer happens to see it.
Not much else to do.
Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
#4I 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 accts got banned forever!
Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
#5What you can do, is upvote the article so that eventually some YouTube engineer happens to see it. Not much else to do.
>>>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
Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
#6Here's a note for everyone: > I do have backup archives of many of the videos and they will be back online again as soon as possible. Unfortunately, I was not diligent enough in keeping backups — especially early on. I am missing the following 21 videos ... Another reminder, yet again, not to trust "Cloud Services" and always to have a copy of data you care about. I hope the problem gets resolved and the channel is r…
Well, don't trust "Cloud Services" unless you're paying them $10k+ a month.
Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
#7Here's a note for everyone: > I do have backup archives of many of the videos and they will be back online again as soon as possible. Unfortunately, I was not diligent enough in keeping backups — especially early on. I am missing the following 21 videos ... Another reminder, yet again, not to trust "Cloud Services" and always to have a copy of data you care about. I hope the problem gets resolved and the channel is r…
Well, don't trust "Cloud Services" unless you're paying them $10k+ a month.
You could pay them hundreds of thousands of dollars a month and will still be disposable. Amazon knocks out sellers worth millions of dollars even if their customer service is amazingly good and attentive not the bullshit you hear from Google.
Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
#8What you can do, is upvote the article so that eventually some YouTube engineer happens to see it. Not much else to do.
>>>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
This is a great idea I can get behind. We need to decentralize away from the major tech platforms in general. Is there an index of all such alternative platforms? I know there’s https://curiositystream.com and am wondering how I discover others like it.
Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
#9Which 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 Business, Google Compute Engine, etc. A non-paying customer gets better support from Microsoft (which is built around B2B) than a business customer does from Google.
Google gives better technology than Microsoft, but at the end of the day, the risk just isn't worth it: If Google's AI messes up, you're out of business.
(And Amazon has better support and technology than Google).
Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
#10Here's a note for everyone: > I do have backup archives of many of the videos and they will be back online again as soon as possible. Unfortunately, I was not diligent enough in keeping backups — especially early on. I am missing the following 21 videos ... Another reminder, yet again, not to trust "Cloud Services" and always to have a copy of data you care about. I hope the problem gets resolved and the channel is r…
Well, don't trust "Cloud Services" unless you're paying them $10k+ a month.
Nah. With Google, the attitude of ad-supported extends to B2B. You can pay them a megabuck a year, and still get steamrolled by their AI having a random bug.