YouTube is part of the problem

[Free]

Dearest Youtube recommends,

I very much enjoyed the video of a violinist covering Mitski's song Geyser. I've watched it before, and I'll probably want to watch it again at some point.

What I don't want is to watch every mother-fucking violinist who's recorded a video of themselves playing - on their violin - every Mitski song in existence. In fact, I think I'm done with violin covers. For a while, at least.

Peace out,
Free

 

[Essence Lumin]

What I don't want is to watch every mother-fucking violinist who's recorded a video of themselves playing - on their violin - every Mitski song in existence. In fact, I think I'm done with violin covers. For a while, at least.

I went into a few day phase quite some time ago where I wanted to hear the sound of window fans to lul me to sleep. For weeks after all I got from youtube recommendations was a bunch of fan noises.

 

[Govi]

Disable your YouTube history and be freed from the Algorithm! "You have nothing to lose but your chains!"

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

YouTube history used to be like the main thing that drove your recommends but...these days I don't know anymore. Less than half of the videos on the home page seem to be related to anything I've watched before.

 

[Free]

YouTube history used to be like the main thing that drove your recommends but...these days I don't know anymore.

It does for recommends based on very recent activity. It's why I've sometimes gone in and deleted viewings from it, to cut down on stuff like the Mitski violin covers (or odder watchings...).

 

[Free]

So my youtube channel was *removed* today due to, according to their email, their "spam, deceptive practices and scams" content policy.

Once I learned of the ban I submitted an appeal, and it looks like things are (temporarily?) back on for me as I can log into youtube and have access to most things I usually do - except for some of my playlists which includes an ongoing list of "video 45s" and one for music covers, which are important things to me. I don't know if those have been permanently deleted.

In any case, I'm not sure how I've violated their "spam, deceptive practices and scams" content policy, considering I don't have any videos on youtube. An absolute zero amount of videos of my own exist on the service. In or out of my regular account. Beyond some kind of weird activity in my playlists I can't explain (they're playlists...of other youtube videos...), or complaints towards one or more of my extremely occasional comments, where I post a thanks or appreciation or the rare paragraph of pure love (trolling in video comments is boring), I don't see how I've violated their CONTENT policy.

 

[Free]

youtube has responded to my appeal!

Hi Free,

We’re pleased to let you know that we’ve recently reviewed your YouTube account, and after taking another look, we can confirm that it is not in violation of our Terms of Service. We have lifted the suspension of your account, and it is once again active and operational.

They note "Our goal is to make sure content doesn't violate our Community Guidelines so that YouTube can be a safe place for all - and sometimes we make mistakes trying to get it right."

I'm wondering if that "sometimes" might actually be often. After all, I don't have any content that could be considered worthy of a ban. And yet!

At least my playlists have been returned intact, so no damage done. Beyond a few hours of consternation. A normal part of life, right?

 

[Free]

So my youtube channel was *removed* today due to, according to their email, their "spam, deceptive practices and scams" content policy.

It seems I was but a small part in the entire experience.

YouTube fixes glitch that wrongly removed accounts, deleted videos

YouTube confirmed all channels back online after mistaken removals.

arstechnica.com

 

[WolfEyes]

So my youtube channel was *removed* today due to, according to their email, their "spam, deceptive practices and scams" content policy.

Once I learned of the ban I submitted an appeal, and it looks like things are (temporarily?) back on for me as I can log into youtube and have access to most things I usually do - except for some of my playlists which includes an ongoing list of "video 45s" and one for music covers, which are important things to me. I don't know if those have been permanently deleted.

In any case, I'm not sure how I've violated their "spam, deceptive practices and scams" content policy, considering I don't have any videos on youtube. An absolute zero amount of videos of my own exist on the service. In or out of my regular account. Beyond some kind of weird activity in my playlists I can't explain (they're playlists...of other youtube videos...), or complaints towards one or more of my extremely occasional comments, where I post a thanks or appreciation or the rare paragraph of pure love (trolling in video comments is boring), I don't see how I've violated their CONTENT policy.

I keep my play lists private. I cut down on comments because idiots reported me for harassment for one comment. YT AI apparently can't count. One idiot tried telling me I am not Lakota without knowing anything about me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Noodles]

So my youtube channel was *removed* today due to, according to their email, their "spam, deceptive practices and scams" content policy.

Once I learned of the ban I submitted an appeal, and it looks like things are (temporarily?) back on for me as I can log into youtube and have access to most things I usually do - except for some of my playlists which includes an ongoing list of "video 45s" and one for music covers, which are important things to me. I don't know if those have been permanently deleted.

In any case, I'm not sure how I've violated their "spam, deceptive practices and scams" content policy, considering I don't have any videos on youtube. An absolute zero amount of videos of my own exist on the service. In or out of my regular account. Beyond some kind of weird activity in my playlists I can't explain (they're playlists...of other youtube videos...), or complaints towards one or more of my extremely occasional comments, where I post a thanks or appreciation or the rare paragraph of pure love (trolling in video comments is boring), I don't see how I've violated their CONTENT policy.

I had this happen to me on one of the channels I have.

I had a channel that was just a fan channel for a musician I like. Inhad zero videos uploaded, but I had an absolutely enormous amount of time spent building meticuoously.xurated playlists for versions of each song and album (live versions, covers, etc.)

It was all just deleted and removed by Youtube randomly.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/inside-south-koreas-right-wing-youtube-world-openly-embraced-by-yoon-2024-12-16/

 

[Free]

I am all for this. Let the educator and influencer migration to Pornhub begin!

 

[Free]

One step forward...

YouTube Kills Channels Creating Fake AI Movie Trailers

Rejoice, two of the biggest contributors to the AI movie trailer problem on YouTube have been taken down.

gizmodo.com

I'd about lost my lunch when Screen Culture started showing up on my phone's news slider. (I quickly turned off content from them, but to be forced to do that...)

 

[Noodles]

Can they also kill the non AI fake trailers.