Youtube General thread (formerly Youtube Censorship discussion thread)

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Aquire Aquarius said:
Playlists of YouTube content being deleted because the playlist’s name or description casts dispersion on the subject.
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There is no coherent or logical reason why a playlist would be deleted for having a video in it while the video itself is allowed on YouTube.

Of course, Google is a private company so they can just do whatever retarded shit they want with no rhyme or reason.
One Quick Post said:
I had this same thing happen to me a few years ago, very old account, 5000 video ancient favorites playlist, deleted for "Child Endangerment," appeal denied with no reason given.
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Youtube delete accounts so flippantly is particularly a problem because many people's YouTube is tied to their personal Gmail and when a YouTube channel is deleted so is the associated gmail.

Many people use their gmail for work, school, some people sign into paid services through their gmail. Deleting someone's gmail can fuck their shit up pretty bad in some cases, no longer getting emails from clients, medical emails, cant login to some paid service, now they gotta cancel the credit card attached. Just a complete shitshow, because what, they maybe uploaded a video onto youtube that youtube didnt like?

This is why google needs to be broken up, or at least treated as a separate entity entirely from other google services/gmail/etc. And also why people should start diversifying their online accounts and not have everything linked to one email account.
 
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Supposedly, google and YouTube hire some of the most talented developers there are. Why is their Apple TV app a giant pile of shit?
 
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Youtube is going all in on my attempts to listen to whatever the audio equivalent of a shitpost is. Videos alternate, seemingly randomly, between one of:
1) Not playing at all
2) Not playing unless I am actively clicking 'play' (so it plays in ~half second fragments)
3) Playing 2-3 seconds then reloading the entire page
Total Google Death.
 
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HahaYes said:
"This helps protect our community"
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How would a bot watching a video hurt the community, if the bot isn't logged in it cant leave a bot comment or do anything at all, why would this even be that big of a concern and clearly since there is a bot comment problem having an account doesn't prove something isn't a robot anyway.
 
Community is what Google is calling their bottom line I assume, was there not a massive thing about one of the infinite AI video shitshows scraping thousands of hours of YouTube videos?
 
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urr13 account said:
How would a bot watching a video hurt the community, if the bot isn't logged in it cant leave a bot comment or do anything at all, why would this even be that big of a concern and clearly since there is a bot comment problem having an account doesn't prove something isn't a robot anyway.
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It's not even about bots at this point. It's a bullshit fake countermeasure to try force users to create accounts so they can:
  • Shut down things like invidious, yt-dlp, newpipe etc which means they can:
  • Gather user account data to harvest and sell
Things like this always come down to selling user data. Genuine data on real people is the most valuable asset a company can have these days, especially one like jewgle who ingrain themselves so fucking heavily in a lot of Internet services it requires more and more effort to avoid them as time goes on. They want your data so they can sell it and you to the ends of the damn earth
 
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HahaYes said:
It's not even about bots at this point. It's a bullshit fake countermeasure to try force users to create accounts so they can:
  • Shut down things like invidious, yt-dlp, newpipe etc which means they can:
  • Gather user account data to harvest and sell
Things like this always come down to selling user data. Genuine data on real people is the most valuable asset a company can have these days, especially one like jewgle who ingrain themselves so fucking heavily in a lot of Internet services it requires more and more effort to avoid them as time goes on. They want your data so they can sell it and you to the ends of the damn earth
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Related - expect VPNs to be one of Google's next targets even if you are signed in. Advertisers are one of the main consumers of user data, and since most ad campaigns will be different in different countries or even different regions of the same country the mere possibility that user data might contain spoofed location information is going to scare advertisers. Combine that with Google's ad business being one of the company's most profitable divisions and you can see where things are headed.

ETA: To your point about Google being so ingrained in the Internet, you're right and any attack on VPNs is likely to affect most or all Google services. Google might even offer a "helpful" anti-spam/anti-hacking feature to third parties that doubles as a blanket block on VPNs.
 
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UncleTusky said:
Related - expect VPNs to be one of Google's next targets even if you are signed in.
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Oh yeah for sure, this is already occurring with a few other services not related to google. Case in point I recently ended up permanently suspended from a service I very, very rarely used because I signed into the account I had owned for over 5 years with a VPN, something I'd done before (granted the logs for it by this point are well and truly gone but I digress). They locked down the account under the guise of """suspicious activity""" despite all other authentication checks completing including MFA and no other anomalous activity occurred within it, I verified I did in fact action everything myself and that I still maintained control of said account. They unlocked it and removed the flags... only to do the same thing 4 days later, then permanently suspend it claiming fraud shortly after when I grilled them as to what the flying fuck they thought they were doing

Additionally their process is not how initial triage and account lock down should work in the first place anyways, but we all know what the ulterior motive really is so there's no point bothering to mention that to these businesses either. Absolute faggots
 
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The Nothingness said:
Even with using the Brave browser, ads are starting to come back at the start of some videos. Only it's for stuff like Pie AdBlock this time.
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It's time to become more extremist. I watch YT videos on a laptop usually, so I've been using FreeTube with the subscriptions imported from my old YouTube profile (before I deleted it) for the last month. It's great. I've never seen an ad. SponsorBlock is built in. It supports a dark mode obviously. It has the same great control over preferred formats, and playback speed defaults and easy toggles, that are the best features of the YouTube enhancement extensions, but you don't have to run your regular browser with extensions like those (which might be sold to a random company and compromised) enabled. Invidious frontends and working through arbitrary proxies or Tor is supported.

You can set up playlists that are entirely offline, avoiding the random account blockings that people mention having happen in this thread. You can have separate profiles, all entirely out of the view of the Google jeets, with seperate channel subscriptions etc.

The only real issue I have with it, is that it doesn't offer launching yt-dlp as a single click download option (you can download videos quite easily but it works by linking you to an MP4 file with some kind of random identifier, where you might have to type a name that you want to give it). The main reason I download videos is to watch or listen to the audio of longer ones on my phone- so I just use the 'copy youtube url' option and download those at the command line with yt-dlp, then transfer them to other devices with Syncthing.

It's not the ideal solution for automatically archiving a channel, but it works great for anything else on desktop. If I was using Android primarily for this task I would probably use something more native even though there is a FreeTube port to Android- I gather there are a couple different options. But I sure as shit wouldn't raw-dog the HIV-infected devadasi that is YouTube.

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So is age restricted videos just completely fucked without an account? yt-dlp, nsfwyoutube, and other random video ripper sites are shitting the bed anytime you try to download them. Even FreeTube bugs out with a bunch of error messages when trying to view them.

It never used to be like this before, so I'm assuming this is part of their new code they've been implementing?
 
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So is age restricted videos just completely fucked without an account? yt-dlp, nsfwyoutube, and other random video ripper sites are shitting the bed anytime you try to download them. Even FreeTube bugs out with a bunch of error messages when trying to view them.

It never used to be like this before, so I'm assuming this is part of their new code they've been implementing?
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Yes, unfortunately the bypass (pretending to be a TV app? I think) was patched and no longer functions, and there is no currently working bypass. If you want to download or watch age-gated content from YT you need to provide an age-verified account now.
 
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