There was some chatter on Reddit about this last night that I dismissed, a friend of mine read this as "if I use ad blockers on YouTube they will ban my Gmail account so I'm moving all my services off @gmail and using a different email address". I don't get that take myself, but maybe he's right and I'm wrong?
But regardless, VG247 breaking this down seems to make it clear Google wants to ... scare away all their YouTube content creators? Why would they do this? This seems like a terrible idea that's going to backfire and have creators scrambling for new places to move to, wouldn't you expect?
I have a little channel with around 1300 subscribers, it's cool - I can put up some fun videos and people sometimes like them and more often ignore them - and I don't monetize so I don't think I have anything to worry about - but then again, I'm not commercially viable either?
EDIT: From the VG247 article (see Threadmark):
Update: The line in question has actually been part of YouTube's terms of service since last year, but the most recent update changed the wording.
"YouTube may terminate its legal agreement with you if the provision of the service to you by YouTube is, in YouTube's opinion, no longer commercially viable."
That line has now been changed to the harsher and clearer, "YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account's access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable."
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