My YouTube account was recently mistakenly suspended; luckily, after a few minutes of panic, Google reinstated it.
I discovered the suspension because my kid wanted to see a video on my TV's YouTube app (LG webOS), which showed an error without further explanation. Trying to find out what happened, I saw an email from YT about my account breaking the ToS with a video. "WTF!? I got pwned!" was my first reaction (followed by panic as YT uses my Google account). But, no, the culprit was a screen recording in 2015 that I did at work to showcase a UI prototype about a key-based VPC setup workflow I was working on. The video was private and unlisted, and I didn't remember it as I did it as a quick capture to share an idea with the team. I hypothesize that the video got flagged because the algorithm confused it with a "crack/hack tutorial."
I was happy to see my account reinstated the same day. However, the whole experience didn't leave good taste: a small algorithm mistake can make your life miserable, and you don't have any human or support to correct it. Also, the "private" moniker in YT videos is an illusion.
When Google banned a user because their Google Drive was used to share a picture of their child’s skin with the doctor for diagnosis reasons and Google flagged the account as CSAM, I felt vindicated that I don’t create content for YouTube. Not because I believe my content would get banned, but because their automated systems catch irrelevant content and the user experience of those instances is like a DoS on your digital identity.
Presumably, there are Discord servers for that kind of thing, seeing as Discord has mostly replaced the forums of yore.
Can they just iterate through the URL keys?
youtu.be/v=a0000aa
youtu.be/v=a0000ab
youtu.be/v=a0000ac
youtu.be/v=a0000adPlus, they don't have to do it every day, and clearly don't, since some people get dinged for videos they uploaded months or years earlier.
It's not like these organizations don't have the cash for the system to do it. It's not going to be one guy in the basement of the building overclocking a 386.
That means you just need millions of years to go through the entire range.