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YouTube limits live streams viewers for accounts with "limited creator history"

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Re: YouTube limits live streams viewers for accounts with "limited creator history"

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Post by jdlshore »

Gravyness wrote: post #3
alx__ wrote: post #2

Tweet was deleted

It's working for me, here's the picture of the tweet in case it is locally blocked: https://i.imgur.com/dh1kU1q.png Anyways it looks like censorship is thriving like never before. I wonder what' up.

I think it's more likely that this is an abuse-prevention scheme rather than a censorship scheme. If so, "what's up" is that the Internet is full of assholes, and preventing assholes from wasting your money and ruining things for everyone else is very hard to do perfectly, especially when you provide a free service with anonymous sign-up.

One way to do so is to limit the privileges of accounts without much history.

Re: YouTube limits live streams viewers for accounts with "limited creator history"

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Post by yellowapple »

jdlshore wrote: post #5
Gravyness wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's working for me, here's the picture of the tweet in case it is locally blocked: https://i.imgur.com/dh1kU1q.png Anyways it looks like censorship is thriving like never before. I wonder what' up.

I think it's more likely that this is an abuse-prevention scheme rather than a censorship scheme. If so, "what's up" is that the Internet is full of assholes, and preventing assholes from wasting your money and ruining things for everyone else is very hard to do perfectly, especially when you provide a free service with anonymous sign-up. One way to do so is to limit the privileges of accounts without much history.

Which would be "fine" if Google was even remotely transparent in its definition of "without much history".

Re: YouTube limits live streams viewers for accounts with "limited creator history"

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Post by mdrzn »

Never seen before but it kinda makes sense.. if I was YT?

A bad actor could sign up, start a livestream and start spamming the link to gain thousands of viewers. But of course this also fairly limits the ability of a community to start a stream and garner following.

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