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YouTube limits live streams viewers for accounts with "limited creator history"
- alx__ 5y agoTweet was deleted
- Gravyness 5y agoIt's working for me, here's the picture of the tweet in case it is locally blocked: https://i.imgur.com/dh1kU1q.png https://i.imgur.com/dh1kU1q.png Anyways it looks like censorship is thriving like never before. I wonder what' up.
- jdlshore 5y agoI think it's more likely that this is an abuse-prevention scheme rather than a censorship scheme. If so, "what's up" is that the Internet is full of assholes, and preventing assholes from wasting your money and ruining things for everyone else is very hard to do perfectly, especially when you provide a free service with anonymous sign-up. One way to do so is to limit the privileges of accounts without much history.
- yellowapple 5y agoWhich would be "fine" if Google was even remotely transparent in its definition of "without much history".
- mdrzn 5y agoNever seen before but it kinda makes sense.. if I was YT? A bad actor could sign up, start a livestream and start spamming the link to gain thousands of viewers. But of course this also fairly limits the ability of a community to start a stream and garner following.
- jffry 5y agoFWIW, I found a Tweet dating back to Jan 8 that was in reply to somebody who tweeted a Youtube livestreamed dogsledding race: https://twitter.com/Cami5320/status/1479893333480599555 https://twitter.com/Cami5320/status/1479893333480599555
- pdimitar 5y agoOne more reason to use youtube-dl / yt-dlp then?