Re:Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
by ehsankia on Sunday February 20, 2022 @03:09PM
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> Why would hundreds of unlisted videos be against the ToS?
It's most likely against ToS if you use said videos in a commercial way. Youtube isn't your companies private video hosting service.
> OP didn't say the videos contained ads.
No, but they were used to run their business. So it was commercial in nature.
> And why can't unlisted videos contain ads anyway?
Mostly a quirk of how Youtube works.
> And why can't unlisted videos contain ads anyway?
Looks like I was wrong about this one, sorry. It does seem like unlisted videos can indeed run ads. That being said, it still seems like a bad idea to run company crucial part of your business off of a free ad-based service.
2. OP didn't say the videos contained ads. And why can't unlisted videos contain ads anyway?
3. YT weren't complaining about ads anyway. It was "cyberbullying" in one video.