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.
They left the rest of your Google account alone? That’s interesting…
You always adblock on all of your devices, or most of them? Ever VPN?
Welcome to the dark side.
We lack cookies tho >:(
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…
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
They flag u as a bot if u start blocking trackers.
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
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.
I prefer Microsoft Hotmail as they are way behind Google when it comes to monetisation.
I’m still using a Hotmail account that I created nearly 30 years ago.
