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Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by Tijdreiziger on Friday February 25, 2022 @01:22PM (#30470390)
Recently, comment sections of popular YT videos are littered with bots spamming links accompanied by phrases like 'hot girls' and '18+ only'. They're everywhere, and this really doesn't strike me as an inherently hard problem to solve.

(In fact, I wonder who these spammers are targeting. Surely the average YT user is smart enough to recognize blatant spam?)

Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by mrguyorama on Friday February 25, 2022 @02:31PM (#30471246)
Check this video by linus tech tips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo_uoFI1WXM

Some random dude built an anti youtube comment spam tool. Youtube could absolutely fix this problem, they just don't care