Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/20/youtube-herpa-derped.html
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which resulted in several popular creators receiving emails alerting
“Several” - given how many people whose names are familiar to me, despite spending no time on Youtube, were complaining about being de-verified, I’m guessing it’s a lot more than “several.”
The Youtube response is unintelligible - did they mean to do this? Was it an accident, a side effect of a new system? Battling impersonation by de-verifying accounts doesn’t make a lot of sense.
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The shitshow that is Big Tech rolls on.
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Why is Youtube such a constant fuckup? Do they do anything right, moral or otherwise?
I hope we have a new player soon.
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“We meant to do this (probably so that we could extort people for ever-more personal information for their verification,) but it unintentionally caused us bad PR” 
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My biggest takeaway from this article is that YouTube does, in fact, employ people who can manually review things.
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How does removing peoples Verified status, who are only known on youtube help protect us?
Sounds like they have a new product in the future where they want to charge for this, so lets kick every on off it then make people pay a yearly fee of £500 to be Verified…
“We meant to do this because we want to promote only the content we can monetise -as non-verified accounts have less chance to be promoted into front-page suggestions- but this is causing us bad PR.”
Not that they are going to backpedal this…
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