A German computer tutorial channel (of the advanced type) uploaded a video concerning their issues. In short:
they have been doing this for ~12 years
they make tutorials on how VPN, Cross-site scripting, etc. works
Youtube moved the goalposts creating strikes from previously okay videos
they are just a hair and some luck away from getting banned and deleted
The video in question:
According to YouTube, setting up a VPN is Mature Audience only, editing Windows Registry is highly dangerous (making it mature audience only).
So just like it happened to Cody’sLab a while ago (2017), prepare to die at random. Video concerning Codys issue. I am not linking the backup-video diretly due to YouTubes recent shenanigans concerning where views come from.
we gotta pump up the alternatives, it’s not about sharing knowledge anymore, youtube is a corps platform and will do everything it can to get more money
Can only watch the video when logged in and your birthday is set you are 18 (or 21) years old. Not a problem in my case as I was born 14th june 1542.
SemperVideo went ahead and deleted several thousands of their old videos to save themself from a third strike. Because that is the problem here.
Nobody knows when it is “just” an age restriction and when you get a Strike to send your Channel to the void.
I can’t find the video right now, but Cody’sLab once got a strike on a deleted video, so he could not dispute the strike for deleted-video reasons.
Major Corperation in partnership with with other companies via ads and etc… Not wanting people have videos that teach how to take agency over your life and things you own, thus reducing dependence on them.
fuck I’ll try to not dwelve into pol stuff but let’s go
let’s say they’re pretty much like this
are they wrong?
no
are they completely right?
also no
the thing is, in my point of view, that you/we/they have taken youtube for granted as a source of knowledge, but you/we/they are wrong because it’s just a platforme which is greedy as fuck and will do whatever they can to pump the profits up
Some channels that typically have content that is easy to encode, for example screensharing tutorials and a good chunk of low-motion gaming, should consider diversifying by creating an alternative. Make a niche that avoids high bitrate content and other barriers to entry and you might just have a chance.
YouTube is trash. They banned my “brand” channel when I tried to make it, then deleted my own YT channel and account when I complained. All I had on was some simple Blender animations I made testing the physics. They didn’t even have music on them. >:(
This is known as Knoll’s Law of Media Accuracy:“Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge”