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Anon for obv reasons. They were flagged for "spam and deceptive practices" - this isn't always for content, it can totally be based on behavior of associated ac
by spamorenko 2y ago
Anon for obv reasons. They were flagged for "spam and deceptive practices" - this isn't always for content, it can totally be based on behavior of associated accounts along with other web activity. Trying not to tar a whole group of people with the same brush, but I'm afraid most spam and deception online have certain common attributes. These are easily detected and actual false positives are rarer than you'd think. This person is lucky media got involved.
- floydnoel 2y agoso you’re saying their youtube channel did nothing wrong, but some associated account activity was flagged? what a joke of a company.
- jiggawatts 2y agoGoogle doesn't differentiate between any activity linked to the same account, and it's a viral thing so that "bad behaviour" by even vaguely associated accounts will "tar and feather" everything associated. An example that came up was someone's GCP being wiped out because he was engaged in "ad theft". The guy had a personal video channel where he was uploading videos and then checking them for quality. Because he was a significant percentage of the viewer count, his account was flagged as "faking views to get ad revenue" and his online presence was nuked by Google. Email, VMs, YouTube channel, everything.