Current Events > YouTube may deleteaccounts that are not "commercially viable"

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https://mashable.com/article/youtube-new-terms-of-service-no-longer-commercially-viable/

Basically, if your YouTube channel isn't making any money, your YouTube and Google Accounts are deleted.
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We have known for a long time now that top staff at youtube want to make it a platform more like Netflix. It seems like they are actually starting to do it.
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This makes me sad, Youtube is just becoming another version of Cable TV except without paying for it.


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AW man they are going to destroy my edited videos... I better back them up before that happens. =(
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Kaliesto posted...

This makes me sad, Youtube is just becoming another version of Cable TV except without paying for it.

we pay for cable tv with our money

but we pay for youtube with our dignity
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There is also the matter of a few youtubers I follow for remixes, and they're not that popular.

Just great, this will make it harder to find them.

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Apparently they're doing this to delete 10 hour vids that are only made to game the algorithm

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Are you safe if you have Premium?

provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable

It probably only affects those trash let's play account where the author uploads daily videos that get only 10 views each.

Know what? Why not just go ahead and have someone start up another Channel Website, and just repopulate over there?

That way nobody has to deal with Google and Youtube anymore, sure they'll lose all that money but at least it will go back to basics just for the time being.

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Bitches. I store my ps4 gameplay videos there for personal use. That completely destroys that ability
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how can they delete google accounts when those are the only way to log into lots of shit?
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Imagine if the policy deleted the first video uploaded to the site.
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Capitalism making everything worse again.

This is going to be delicious.

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Well, who wants to help me create new youtube. A video site where your videos don't get taken down for dumbass reasons. We can become billionaires when we get large enough to sell to Google.
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dailymotion.com
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sondast posted...

Well, who wants to help me create new youtube. A video site where your videos don't get taken down for dumbass reasons. We can become billionaires when we get large enough to sell to Google.

there are already more established alternatives we'd be competing with

youtube's power lies in its network effects, and even if a clone of youtube were created, those would be extraordinarily difficult to capture
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P-Uuasj_jA

A video explaining this in more detail.
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The only content I watch on YouTube is monetized anyway. Im okay with this. I dont need to link to a five hour Rick roll very often.
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Seems like it's going down the toilet but there really aren't any viable options. It's like saying "Let's start a new Facebook." Not even Google was able to do it, and damn near everyone has a Gmail account.

I know Google+ was a shitty alternative, but the point still stands. When a website has 99%+ market share, you're not going to take that away unless they start actively alienating your average user (like if they went full pay to watch).
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Wasn't the imgTC guy talking about creating an alternative video sharing site once? He got a few of us to sign up to be notified when it got going, but I haven't heard anything since
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The free market, baby!
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Spooking posted...

YouTube went to shit when Google bought them.

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Remember when youtube was for the ordinary person?
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Spooking posted...

YouTube went to shit when Google bought them.

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Machete posted...

how can they delete google accounts when those are the only way to log into lots of shit?

My literal first thought.
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Caution998 posted...

[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

man, get this hipster shit outta here. guys acting like 10 minute 480p limits on videos were "the golden days"

youtube has way better functionality now in 2019 than it did before google bought them out. Im a content creator too, this change means little next to nothing.
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Not all of us care about the quality of the videos. We care more about how rich the content is. It's why I'm not a big graphics guy when it comes to video games.

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Ok.
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Trickfinger posted...

Ok.

Nothing you have put out as a content creator has been even remotely interesting, especially if it's been released in the last 5 years.

Bring back the funny sketch comedy groups and shit. Everything is all sterilized and the same now...

"dumb ass music"

Dumb ass content, thats shiny and neat like a fucking hospital bed.

SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON / RING THAT BELL

"dumb ass outro music"

Now with more filler so it hits that 10 minute mark baby!

At the end of the day, all the shit is the -same- on youtube anymore, except for Kobra Kai Dojo and if you're not involved in that get the fuck out boy.
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More reason to use sites like Bitchute, Minds, Dissenter, etc.
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Yazarogi posted...

Trickfinger posted...

Ok.

Nothing you have put out as a content creator has been even remotely interesting, especially if it's been released in the last 5 years.

Bring back the funny sketch comedy groups and shit. Everything is all sterilized and the same now...

"dumb ass music"

Dumb ass content, thats shiny and neat like a fucking hospital bed.

SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON / RING THAT BELL

"dumb ass outro music"

Now with more filler so it hits that 10 minute mark baby!

At the end of the day, all the shit is the -same- on youtube anymore, except for Kobra Kai Dojo and if you're not involved in that get the fuck out boy.

Didn't say I was an influencer Einstein
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This makes it sound like if you block youtube ads, they are threatening to ban your account either from all google services or just youtube.

That would be extremely lame of them to do. But if they do that, I'll just move on and continue watching adblocking youtube, but no longer while logged in.
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I think people are reacting to this in the wrong way. The main problem with this is that its extremely vague and pointless of a thing to have in your terms of use unless you just put it in there to give you an excuse to remove whoever under vague undisclosed reasons.

To people saying this will close accounts of let's players with low view video counts or people using adblock or etc etc: you are being silly. Plain and simple. Sure, those accounts might not be making youtube much money, but that's a different thing from saying it's "not commercially viable" to support them. Because honestly, those sorts of people make up the vast majority of youtube's userbase. And if you're saying the majority of youtube's userbase is not commercially viable to support, how does youtube still exist?
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To clarify, there are no new rights in our ToS to terminate an account bc its not making money. As before, we may discontinue certain YouTube features or parts of the service, for ex., if they're outdated or have low usage. This does not impact creators/viewers in any new ways.

From @TeamYoutube

Also I saw someone in a reddit thread basically echo this exact sentiment before this tweet. The phrasing of the new tos was just dogshit and got people up in arms.

Your YouTube account isn't gonna be tactically nuked up the ass just because you blocked a couple ads

TC is probably lying
i was willing to believe theyll close youtube channels

but deleting google accounts ? their emails and all of people files

not going to believe it
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marc55 posted...

TC is probably lying
i was willing to believe theyll close youtube channels

but deleting google accounts ? their emails and all of people files

not going to believe it

theyre not, this is clickbait. would make no sense for yt to do lol.
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kirbymuncher posted...

To people saying this will close accounts of let's players with low view video counts or people using adblock or etc etc: you are being silly. Plain and simple. Sure, those accounts might not be making youtube much money, but that's a different thing from saying it's "not commercially viable" to support them. Because honestly, those sorts of people make up the vast majority of youtube's userbase. And if you're saying the majority of youtube's userbase is not commercially viable to support, how does youtube still exist?

I agree with you on most of that, except about majorities. Most internet users don't block ads. Then you have apps like youtube vanced which have very small userbases
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IShall_Run_Amok posted...

Capitalism making everything worse again.

This is going to be delicious.

Capitalism is the reason YouTube ever existed in the first place

Pls delete pudiepie and boogie thx google
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Antifar posted...

The free market, baby!

the free market tends to self correct in these types of situations, just not in predictable or the most amenable ways.

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I read the full new terms last night when I got a pop up about it. I found this part but it seems to not be as bad as the topic makes it out to be and doesn't seem to even be one of the main points of the changes. It looks like more of a "we reserve the right to do whatever" clause than a "This is one of the major changes we are implementing" thing. Even then it seems like there is an appeal process for it.
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Loud_Pipes posted...

IShall_Run_Amok posted...

Capitalism making everything worse again.

This is going to be delicious.

Capitalism is the reason YouTube ever existed in the first place

And now its the reason it sucks.

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Spooking posted...

YouTube went to shit when Google bought them.

Yes. Even the coding