Posted on 11/23/2021 5:03:43 AM PST by ptsal
On January 5, 2022, we’re updating our Terms of Service (“Terms”) to help clarify and make it easier to understand what to expect as you use the service. These changes won’t affect the way you use YouTube. You can review a summary of the changes and the updated Terms here.
(Excerpt) Read more at YouTube.com ...
General updates for improved readability: While our Terms remain a legal document, we’ve done our best to make them easier to understand. This includes reorganizing some sections (such as Account Suspension and Termination) and rewording others (such as Changing this Agreement).
Inclusion of the Community Guidelines strikes process: Your use of YouTube has always been subject to the Community Guidelines and its strikes process, but we’re now explicitly including the Community Guidelines strikes information in the Terms to increase transparency. There are no changes to how Community Guidelines strikes operate, or when a channel or content might receive a strike.
Please make sure you read the updates to the Terms. By continuing to use YouTube after this date, you are agreeing to the updated Terms. Note, if you allow your child to use YouTube Kids, or manage your child’s use of YouTube through Family Link, take a moment to talk to them about these changes.
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Was there ever any doubt that it’s not ‘you’ tube, but “Truth”Tube?
Youtube is owned by Google. When you use communist tools expect communist rules.
Rumble has good stuff
If one steers clear of controversy, YouTube offers an amazing opportunity to build a cottage industry around one’s knowledge, hobbies, interests (or to benefit from the resulting channels as a viewer).
A treasure trove of historic entertainment moments, too. Not that these are exclusive to YT, but easy to find there. Dizzie Gillespie live in 1964, for example.
Youtube’s value as a company is based on the number of users.
That’s entirely voluntary.
Google itself is hard to stear clear of because it’s used by many businesses for both hardware and software reasons.
YouTube didn’t have any competition for a very long time. They might want to revisit those rules as more and more people move to their competition.
Elusive oncert footage is another one of YouTube’s positives. Same with live comedy bits that would have never been made available otherwise.
My ad blockers seem to no longer be effective and I have two major issues with the ads:
1) no mid-video inserts, please. Tacky, tacky.
2) no ads of over a minute in length. If you need more than 60 seconds to tell your story, you’re doing it wrong. This includes infomercial material.
3) no ads longer than the actual video you wanted to watch.
4) no music videos as ads. I click right out of the video when I see those.
5) PLEASE no Stacey Abrams, particularly before mealtime.
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