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Sounds like a combination of good heuristic security and not being able to scale customer support...

If I were them, I,d be investing in the latter.




They should invest in a mechanism to allow you to train the heuristics in advance. If the heuristic knows that location A is a location you normally login from and location B is not but you could tell it in advance "I'm going to travel to location B on date X for duration Y" it would have the extra necessary information to know that this activity is normal and not suspicious.


It's unlikely to change because it costs them less to automate (even if it's far from perfect) and manually deal with errors that happen to people with enough reach to cause bad PR than to have staff.


But YouTube has absolutely no incentive to do that.


If I were working for YouTube I would be horrified at this video. This creator has gone from loving and synergizing with YouTube to looking for another platform. In fact, they already are on another platform, and just gave it a huge shoutout.

Although they say there is no alternative to YouTube for them today, it makes it obvious that there is an opportunity.

Seems like a pretty large incentive for anyone forward-thinking and not over-confident.


Youtube couldn't turn a profit for years even with 1 billion viewers.

Have fun competing against that.


Money? Doesn't hiding videos leads to less views which leads to less revenue for Youtube?


It's a way to create purely advertisement friendly content. You train your users on how to be attractive for those who pay for ads, not for users who watch content.


By looking at the YouTube homepage when logged out, you get a better idea of what kind of content wins on YouTube.

Hint: It’s not high quality.

YouTube couldn't care less about random creators like this one that don’t optimize for eyeballs.


> Youtube Rather whole Google in most of their products.


It has been clear for a long time that big tech companies do not care about customer support. It's something that just cannot be done without having personnel propositional to your userbase.


Why? They’re a completely entrenched monopoly whom the government lets pretend to be some kind of intelligence agency.




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