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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
We lack cookies tho >:(
Skill issue.
Speak for yourself. I'm grown. I can have cookies whenever I damn well please. LOL
I see that as a positive.
Oh, you mean real cookies...
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.
Just a warning on MS email services. I stopped paying for OneDrive and the DAY my sub expired they stopped allowing me to receive or send emails on my linked Outlook and Hotmail email addresses. Not sure whether this same policy applies to stand alone legacy Hotmail accounts, but it’s the same company running the service.
In terms of which company I detest more: I think it’s still Microsoft hands down. At least Google doesn’t suspend send / receive if you stop paying. MS is a dumpster fire of tax evasion, monopoly, and predatory behavior.
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.
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?
Yep. I have access to everything else, just can't view Youtube while signed in.
I disabled my adblock for YT, but I still use privacy badger and occasionally a VPN.
eugh, you disabled adblock? was it not uBlock Origin, our lord and saviour?
They flag u as a bot if u start blocking trackers.
what if, to bypass "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" for invidious and the likes, run the youtube site unmodified, and just monitor it
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...
oh yeah the google banning accounts for no reason thingy