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Today I ended up on the wrong side of the Google bot algorithm (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just about an hour ago, I received an email informing me that my YouTube account was terminated for violations of their "scams, spam, and deceptive content" policy. The email was long winded about how I must've uploaded something or other, or commented spammy/scammy content.

Just one problem: I have never uploaded a video in the 10 years I've had my account. I comment maybe twice a year when I actually have an answer to a question someone asked in the comments. I even paid for Premium for me and my family.

Well, guess I'm screwed because I doubt the appeal robot or whatever actually changes its mind when you submit one.

Glad I at least started deGoogling. This is a very close-to-home reminder of how dependent I am on them for their services.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Welcome to the dark side.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Better late than never lol. They really are a shitty company. Bots run the show over there. I just never thought it would be this bad until it was...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

I reduced my account usage by 99% in 2019 and then fully deleted it in 2023 after having used it very very little probably like one time a year after 2019. If that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

We lack cookies tho >:(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Skill issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I see that as a positive.

Oh, you mean real cookies...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Speak for yourself. I'm grown. I can have cookies whenever I damn well please. LOL

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Ultimately Google is going to do this to every customer in the end, its systems for detecting problems are buggy and you don't get to speak to a human to fix the problem so a simple automated error becomes fatal. Its going to happen at some point and its a lot easier to migrate when it all still works than afterwards when it doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well done! 💪🚀

This reminds me: what kind of Youtube replacement or quasi-replacement in the Fediverse? I've heard that Peertube may be difficult to maintain long term, which makes sense...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

oh yeah the google banning accounts for no reason thingy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Almost exactly the same happened to me (though I had uploaded exactly one innocuous video a few months earlier) recently and my appeal was accepted within a couple days

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Good to know. Even if it does get unsuspended, I'm taking it as a wake up call. If that was my gmail account I would've been in a bad situation. I use it for almost everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I prefer Microsoft Hotmail as they are way behind Google when it comes to monetisation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm still using a Hotmail account that I created nearly 30 years ago.