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They didn't ban your account for not having a phone number.
by dimino 10y ago
They didn't ban your account for not having a phone number.
- eveningcoffee 10y agoWhat else? I was creating this for Youtube videos for my son. When we were about to upload a video, it was already banned.
- dimino 10y agoI dunno, but you weren't banned for not having a phone number attached to your account, because I and many others have accounts without phone numbers and are not banned.
- eveningcoffee 10y agoIt may depend on the time frame and geolocation. I tried to do this about 6 months ago. I have also an old account that does not have a phone number and it is functional. What I was describing was a creation of a new account.
- dimino 10y agoI'm not Google customer support, but I'll repeat for a third time; you were not suspended because you didn't provide a phone number.
- lucb1e 10y agoI think you've made your opinion clear. Why continue to try pushing it as fact? There are a thousand factors at play in spam/fraud/whatever detection, how can you possibly say with a straight face that you're certain the phone number is not a leading reason?
- eveningcoffee 10y agoIt may be that this persons knows something more that we do not (does not seem to be the case) or has very different experience. I do not mind this. It is indeed possible that the cause of the ban originated from some other source as from entered personal details and sequence of actions. It actually motivates me to create another experiment. While this statement will be really buried, it reminds me that we still should be thankful that we can somewhat conceal our identity as a private enterprise can be much more unforgiving that the state.
- weaksauce 10y agoFrom what I can tell from a few days ago, you can't create a new account without a phone number.
- Symbiote 10y agoFrom just now, I went to gmail.com and created a new account without entering a phone number or email address. I then went to Youtube and uploaded a video. I signed out, then in again. Google asked for a number and recovery email, but let me press "Done" without providing one. I'll sign in later from a different IP, and see what happens. Edit: I've come across [1], which says a phone number is required to upload videos longer than 15 minutes to YouTube, or in some cases to upload anything. [1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/171664 https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/171664
- dimino 10y agoIt's not my opinion, it is fact. There was a reason he was suspended, and it is not his phone number not being attached to his account. Also, I didn't say anything about leading reason.
- eveningcoffee 10y agoSo perhaps you will care to elaborate this a bit more?
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- eveningcoffee 10y agoSo who are you then? :) But I am willing to create another more controlled experiment.
- dimino 10y agoI'm concerned about your ability to control the necessary variables. For example, any one of your anti-tracking measures (you're big into Internet privacy, yes?) may be triggering the suspension.
- eveningcoffee 10y agoMy only concern in that point of time was giving out the phone number, as it will give Google an unique identifier without the ISP and state cooperation. As such I did not use any additional measures. I am grateful of your comments as it will motivate me to give it another try. Btw. in fact I do not use regularly any anti tracking measurements. I am only protecting the local businesses against their own stupidity. I really would like to keep visiting my favorite supermarket regardless of their decision to include their video ads into the Youtube videos I happen to watch time to time. Some careless fools already lost me as an client, I would not like to let this happen again.