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.
Welcome to the dark side.
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…
oh yeah the google banning accounts for no reason thingy
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.
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…
