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Re:YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscrip... by close04 on Friday April 10, 2026 @04:21AM (#47715143)
Definitely not bullshit. I have a friend who was banned simply for returning a Pixel phone after accidentally ordering 2. Some automated mechanism flagged it as potential fraud and nothing worked to reverse the ban. Going to the bank to block payments, remove authorization, or God forbid, do a chargeback for the money they already took after banning you is playing Russian roulette with your Google account.

It's also the only way to stop Google from stealing your money short of going to a lawyer.

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Re:YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscrip... by grebc on Friday April 10, 2026 @06:47AM (#47716112)
The account is already banned.
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Re:YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscrip... by close04 on Friday April 10, 2026 @08:42AM (#47717255)
The Youtube account is banned. Google can escalate things and widen the net to ban anything and everything you have in the Google ecosystem, like a Gmail account. You can see here [0] that OP still has access to the Gmail account.

[0] https://pocketables.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/image-4-1...

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Re:YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscrip... by grebc on Friday April 10, 2026 @03:19PM (#47722457)
It’s not clear that that is the Gmail account to be fair.

Still, you’re not going to let Google continue charging you for nothing and still keep your email with them.

Anyone who has anything like this happen to them is moving off Google products.

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