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we've had our share of controversies on this channel getting hacked uploading

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April Fool's pranks that were too believable that time Colton issued

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copyright strikes against ourselves twice we've also removed plenty of

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videos from our Channel sometimes due to typos or other errors that needed to be

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corrected or disagreements with sponsors but you know what's never happened in 15

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years we have never had a video on our Channel taken down by YouTube without

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our consent is what I used to say that

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is until last Tuesday when I received a notification that our video titled

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degoogle your life part two ad free YouTube was removed from the platform

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and I was issued a community guidelines strike warning a warning that turns into

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a full strike if I repeat the offense

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except what exactly did I even do how is

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it that a video about open maps and ad

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blocking can fall under harmful or

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dangerous content I've done more dangerous things for a DE Grand sponsor

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spot and those are all still up speaking of obviously those guys weren't going to

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miss an opportunity to insert themselves into an LTT controversy so they

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sponsored this video and we'll talk about them more a bit

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later first let's go through what happened on August 20th we published

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degoogle your life part two and after about 2 weeks and 1.4 million views

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YouTube Took the video down and gave us a warning for violating their terms of

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service or TOS but why I mean we've

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uploaded numerous other videos that cover topics like ad blocking vpns and

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alternative YouTube clients what is it that made this video specifically

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harmful or dangerous we get part of the answer in this explainer paragraph that

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says that this category applies to videos which violate YouTube's terms of

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service or emphasis here encourage

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enourage other users to do so which includes content that provides

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instructions on how to download YouTube videos in an unauthorized manner there's

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a lot to unpack here starting with that I don't understand how that is harmful

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or dangerous except maybe to Google's bottom line they want you to pay for

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premium for the privilege of downloading videos which is well within their rights

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but I don't think you can make the argument that downloading video is

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harming the community in any way unless we've Dimension hopped and gone back 40

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years and viewing that content could cause the thought police to cart you

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away for reprogramming but let's put that aside

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because the arbitrary categorization isn't really the point the video was

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removed because for several of its 23-minute runtime we discussed a number

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of ways of accessing all of the content on YouTube without interfacing with

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YouTube directly including by downloading videos now to avoid this

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video getting removed I'm not going to repeat what we said and I'm not going to

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link L to the re-uploads that other users have graciously provided for your

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convenience what I am going to do though is not issue copyright strikes against

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those guys and I'll give you the one

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adree YouTube hack that I actually thought was the coolest one uh for

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whatever reason if you copy the URL of a YouTube video into Bing you should get

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to enjoy an adree experience now saying

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that shouldn't violate any TOs and if Google doesn't like it they can hash

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that out with Microsoft I I recommend an MMA match between satian Adella and

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sunar Pai other than that I don't know

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if there's a path to us making this video available again on YouTube because

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if we re-uploaded it that would be violating the to again netting our

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Channel a strike which is a pretty big deal YouTube has a pretty clear three

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strikes and you're out policy with strike one stopping us from posting for

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a week strike two stopping us for two weeks and strike three permanently

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removing the Channel alog together not posting for even just one week would

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result in significant damage to our business and with around 100 people

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working here supporting their families that just isn't a risk that we're

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willing to take no matter how cheeky I'm personally feeling about the whole

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situation and besides if we're being honest we probably should have known

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this was coming we aren't the first channel that this has happened to

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because of discussions around downloading videos and even channels

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that are on the larger side like Lewis rossman's have gotten struck for

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promoting a particular desaturated Corvette app that includes just such

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functionality now obviously he didn't end up getting banned forever

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considering that his channel is still around but they were clearly Furious

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that he'd been so Brazen and I mean it's pretty obvious Why YouTube is upset

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about this at the end of the day we both knowingly violated the TOs and in a

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manner that has a clear impact on the long-term viability of the platform as

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much as I hate to say it they're kind of right here I mean imagine if you created

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a restaurant let's call it nacho gong

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then someone punched a hole in the back of the restaurant giving everybody

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direct access to the kitchen and then started giving out the food for free

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food that you paid for now obviously the

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bandwidth and storage costs of serving a video are not the same as the Food

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Supplies and prep costs of serving a meal but they are real costs that the

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platform does have to bear and the payment for them is ads and tracking on

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YouTube you don't have to like those things and

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you can continue to circumvent YouTube's payment system as long as you're able

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I'm not going to judge you but what you can't do is sit there and say well I

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have no idea what they're mad about and

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you shouldn't be surprised if YouTube does someday patch the undocumented API

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exploits that third party platforms are taking advantage of so when that

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inevitably happens then what do we do

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well I can't speak for every Creator but what we did is we made our own own video

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platform with float planes and exclusives so if you like our content

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please consider subscribing over at lm. g/f flat plane where you will still be

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able to find degoogle your life part 2 with no ads or sponsor Integrations

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along with plenty of behind the scenes and exclusive content that was in many

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cases deemed to be too hot for YouTube or in most cases actually not algorithm

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friendly and I mean I hate that it's come to this nobody wants more

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subscriptions but we aren't the only one on who see the writing on the wall and

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want to reduce our Reliance on Google's fat tee plenty of other creators have

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also set themselves up on Alternatives like patreon to offer their fans

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something more that doesn't come with intrusive ads and tracking as for the

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future of our content here on YouTube well we're definitely going to keep

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uploading but we're also definitely going to play it a little safer with

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respect to thirdparty YouTube clients and tools with that said though we

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haven't dawned our tricorn hat for the last time and in fact we've got a video

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YouTube thanks dbrand you're always there for us if you guys enjoyed this

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video maybe check out the one about our Channel getting hacked last year those

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guys man do they have any allies in the industry is Burning Bridges just their

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pastime