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YouTube Reviews Summary

YouTube's reputation is increasingly marred by customer dissatisfaction, primarily due to excessive advertisements and perceived censorship. Users express frustration over the platform's reliance on ads, which disrupt viewing experiences and lead many to consider alternatives. Complaints about account suspensions and a lack of transparency regarding community guidelines further exacerbate concerns about customer service. While some users appreciate the vast array of content available, the overall sentiment indicates a growing discontent with YouTube's management practices, prompting calls for more user-friendly policies and a potential shift to competing platforms.

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New York
2 reviews
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A lot of the content is wrong or fake, the advertising is excessive and is interrupting a lot, the pay subscription is expensive and don't Worthing

Date of experience: October 29, 2023
Pennsylvania
12 reviews
31 helpful votes
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I had my youtube channel with no videos since 2014,and I had 20 subscribers then in June 2021 I posted a video and I had checked on my account first to make sure that there were no copywrite issues and the only thing youtube said was that I couldn't make any money from posting the video but I didn't post the video to make money anyway.

The video was on my channel with no issues for about 6 months,and I got 986 subscribers and over 200,000 views for the video,then I got a notice on my account that the video was removed for copywrite reasons. I lost 19 subscribers recently but still had 967 with no video posted at all.

A few years ago before this, youtube unfairly falsely accused me of posting harassing hateful comments and said my account was suspended and I never​ did post any hateful harassing comments,so I emailed them and they said I can ask for an appeal and review of my posts,and eventually they ended up writing back saying they reviewed my comments and that it was a mistake and gave me my account back.

Now just yesterday I had posted quite a few informative posts about a very famous,great popular rock band on someone else's channel and I even removed all of the highlighted links because I know that in recent years youtube removes posts with links included,they didn't used to many years ago.

They sent me a message on youtube's site after they removed my posts,falsely accusing me of spam and scamming and that if I continue to post like this they will not allow me to post any comments and my account can be suspended.

At first I wrote them and said I did not post spam and scams,but then I just deleted my whole youtube channel because they could continue to do this again in the future and the first time is an enough of an injustice!

Also on the Google support site,there are 100's of people from 2020 up to 2023 saying their totally innocent comments were removed by youtube for no good reason.And some nasty comments by people often to other people or true spam that I have reported disappear only for a short time and then they are back on the site.

Date of experience: October 28, 2023
Washington
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Anything discussing the real truth behind matters that the government is pushing youtube bans and censors it. Half of my comments are deleted for explaining the truth and fighting the false information, brainwashing, psyops, and propaganda. The comments that don't get deleted are the ones that are extremely vague. It all gets censored and banned. Youtube is adhering strictly to propaganda messages and the comments that support their propaganda. Youtube is completely corrupt and we are being silenced on this platform so that we cannot combat misinformation. Switch to Rumble or some other platform. DO NOT TRUST INFORMATION FROM YOUTUBE. WE ARE BEING COERCED INTO WAR, BIG PHARMA, SCAMS, DEPENDANCY, AND A FLASE SENSE OF SECURITY.

Date of experience: October 27, 2023
Texas
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Ads
October 28, 2023

I hate that you can't block ads anymore. Everyone's just after the money these days. I don't want to sit through ads

Date of experience: October 27, 2023
Croatia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Bye bye youtube
October 26, 2023

Well bye bye youtube and welcome youtube ripoff's cuz its blocking adblockers so adblockers after adblockers after adblockers it just does not work i really wish there's a website where there's thousand's of thousand's of adblockers made by community to use that use their own way to block ads just to block annoying and scammy@Z$ ads for youtube so well im gonna use bitview then...

Date of experience: October 26, 2023
North Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I posted this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda_Scheme

This is how the U.S came up with the idea to enslave BLKPOC worldwide, tried to install the Russians (Caucasus Mtns.) who practice a form of Judaism, as FAKE (White) Jews in Uganda to play them off as the real ones. The REAL JEWS are AFRICAN. Their existence was documented in the 1600s in the Library of Congress in the Sehel Region of Africa. The fake Jews didn't wanna be close to what they refer to as N/88as, so they started killing the BLK Palestinians. YouTube won't allow me to post ANYTHING like I'm trying to figure out WHO YouTube is PROTECTING from me? Plus, that's scary that they control TRUTH & ALLOW MIS & DISinformation.

Date of experience: October 26, 2023
Connecticut
1 review
0 helpful votes
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New Ad Policies
October 26, 2023

The new ad policies blocking users from viewing content due to adblockers and adjacent plugins have been one of the worst decisions they have made. You cant continue to watch any videos once they block the account for ad blockers. Save to say I'm not using chrome and I can get by without youtube.

Date of experience: October 26, 2023
Tennessee
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I personally use an adblocker. The ads can be annoying, intrusive, and even include threats to your online safety, such as malware. Recently, Youtube decided to disallow all forms of adblocks. While this may seem like a minor detail, refer to why I used an adblock.

Along with this, Youtube has as well increased their price of Youtube Premium, which includes ad-free watching. While, yes, I could just say 'whatever' and buy the now $13.99 subscription, it's of the following:

-Too Expensive for me as of now
-Absurd they do so as they block ads.
-Break one's privacy by forcing ads on a person.

Because of this, I have personally decided I will limit my usage of youtube as much as I can until they undo this decision.

The image below shows what will show up if you have one enabled. I tried searching for where adblocks would show up in the ToS, but couldn't find any direct limitation of adblocks.

Date of experience: October 24, 2023
Michigan
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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YouTube sucks
October 24, 2023

You can't watch or listen to anything on YouTube without constant ads,commercials or other interruptions. I'm all done. I can get the same stuff all over the net without the nonsense ads and commercials. YouTube is making money off other people's content and revenue from ads. Well not from me they aren't.

Date of experience: October 24, 2023
Tennessee
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Greedy Controlling Woke...so greedy if I use an adblocker then I'm to pay them 13.99 month! Woke Religion that censors and deletes creators who are not woke! But the AD's shoved down my throat is criminal, most ads "infest" your computer with "malware and spyware". I do not click on Ads to buy stuff so its wasting everyone's time, I'll go elsewhere to watch videos

Date of experience: October 22, 2023
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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The devil YouTube
October 21, 2023

The criminal Zionists you tube banned my channel and the reason was, my comment about Israel killing the Palestinian kids,and the devil you tube said we re protecting the community,

Date of experience: October 20, 2023
South Africa
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Youtube tried to mediate between myself and Gameloft in regards to identity theft. My conclusion was that they are the same kind of criminal empire. Enjoy your videos, because tomorrow you will be the next Thai hit. These $#*!s don't care about your privacy and safety, they will sell you off like a cheap dog bone because they don't give a $#*! about the people, they care about their themselves only. Youtube will kill you.

Date of experience: October 19, 2023
Uzbekistan
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Mini blog
October 21, 2023

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Date of experience: October 19, 2023
Massachusetts
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Horrible
October 14, 2023

Pointless website first they started mess with notifications then they started to shadowban then they censored comments then they removed dislikes now they are hijacking web browsers scroll locking them and are either forcing people to sit thru ads or pay for premium

Date of experience: October 14, 2023
Kansas
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Ads
October 13, 2023

So, they are forcing us to pay for a premium to remove Ads off of videos no thank you. I will continue to keep using my adblocker until they stop me from watching videos, if that day comes I will go elsewhere to watch videos. I am not having Google rob me of my money just because they are greedy bastards, and desperate for money. Inflation is out of control, and we the people need to start standing up to these WORTHLESS money grubbing bastards.

Date of experience: October 12, 2023
Colorado
17 reviews
7 helpful votes
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I like you tube but i can see the annoyances with the policies and for you page. If you click on one or two videos on accident then they will continue to pop up into your feed for weeks, its great that people can post what you want, but some of the weirdest things can be posted and then if you swear or do something un-citizen like you get demonetized. Probably happens for those videos too, but they still remain up.

Date of experience: October 10, 2023
Ohio
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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Loxism at its finest.
September 30, 2023

Absolutely disgusting and horrendous use of overpower and gaslighting from the loxist jews who own youtube and google that are run together. This is why blacks should not mix with Whites, even black people say the black people are the most racist and White people are only protecting themselves and their borders and the countries that refuse others to respect the constitutional rights and non invasion of White countries/continents, Asia and Africa have their own, sod off! Light skinned jews are not White people! Stop the racism on White people FFS.

Date of experience: September 30, 2023
Luxembourg
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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This is the 2'nd time i see this, youtube canceling videos because it disturbs the politicians or people of influnence.
They Try to BAN Russel Brand and also now Recorded from Romania who exposes dirty affairs of the state or Priests.

Of course Youtube is chosing POWER not truth!

SHame on you Youtube!

You have no dignity!

Date of experience: September 27, 2023
Nevada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Watch youtube every day. So sick of them blocking content they dont agree with. They are whats wrong with corp america today

Date of experience: September 26, 2023
Canada
1 review
10 helpful votes
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NO MORE YOUTUBE…,EVER!
September 26, 2023

YouTube has intentionally increased the amount and length of Ads (with fewer and fewer opportunities to "skip ads") so that viewers, no matter their income, will subscribe to the channel in order to avoid the constant and incessant interruptions of the Ads in the middle of every video.
YouTube, you are greedy and disrespectful of the millions of people who "like" and endorse the videos you post
Well, your greed and ignorance has lost me.
BYE!

Date of experience: September 25, 2023