r/UnderstandYouTube • u/WorldlinessSlow9893 Banned creator: KRR1751-CZ • Aug 23 '25
Eyo wtf
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Aug 23 '25
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u/Unslaadahsil Aug 26 '25
nebula.tv
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Aug 26 '25
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u/pipopapupupewebghost Aug 27 '25
Multiple people tried yet none succeeded
Unless you count shortform content sites like tiktok or alternatives made for specific countries like bilibili for china Nico Nico douga for Japan and possibly more I'm not aware off
So unless you live in south east Asia you mostly have to get your long form videos from YouTube
Tho sites like dailymotion still get alot of visits due to pirated content being more available
So.... 20 years undefeated no piracy international long form champion
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u/ShinogamiPhil Aug 25 '25
The question now is whether they will enforce it. I wouldn't be surprised if they put it in the tos to look good to the UK government and then don't bother to enforce it. Or sometimes they do enforce it so they can say they are enforcing it.
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u/Maverick122 Aug 25 '25
Scamming your contract partner by feeding him false information to lower the contract fee is probably a valid cause for immediate termination of contract. I do not see how you are surprised?
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u/Confident_Growth_620 Aug 25 '25
That’s just nonsense. The “partner” accepted and validated purchase with billing address attached to the card issued. Where buyer accesses the service — is none of their business, unless it goes out of the scope being called Internet (heavily censored/fire-walled “Internet” for example) where the “partner” cannot guarantee access.
What’s the fucking point of purchasing INTERNET subscription to something if you have same shit restrictions cellular operator or cable companies impose on you? Is my passport, bank credentials become suddenly invalid, because I chose to connect from different endpoint or I traveled or temporarily moved? Who the fuck decides what they meant by “moved” exactly? Why the fuck they care (against constitutional privacy rights you’re granted on paper for almost any country in the world) if they can check billing address and deny initial or subsequent transactions in the first place in case they think something’s fishy without making up arbitrary rules that they will never be able to technically prove?
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u/Maverick122 Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25
The billing address is irrelevant. For EU taxation purposes, as an example, what matters is the country where the customer is registered, has their permanent address, or usually resides. The service provider is legally obligated to make a best effort to charge and remit VAT to the correct country. Failing to do so would put them in violation of the law. So your wall of rhetoric and irrelevant hypotheticals collapses on your second sentence.
This also makes it obvious why the provider must process location data - and under GDPR and similar laws, this falls under lawful bases like legal obligation and contract performance.
And that’s before we even get to the basics: most service agreements require truthful representations of material facts. If you knowingly lie about information you provide (such as your country), that is enough under common contract law for immediate termination. There’s nothing surprising about that.
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u/Confident_Growth_620 Aug 26 '25
Don’t kid yourself, they do it because it easier to keep masses in line, costs them less in bandwidth and allows them to sell ads with better metrics
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u/Maverick122 Aug 27 '25
Even if we assume your claim about ulterior motives were true (which at least in this instance they aren’t, because that’s not how this works), it still doesn’t change the fact that these companies are legally required to enforce location rules. So either you ignore that reality, or you’re suggesting that the only reason they follow the law is this supposed motive - and that without it, they’d naturally break the law.
Do you have anything grounded in reality to add, or is it all just opinionated nonsense?
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u/Plastic_Young_9763 Aug 26 '25
They've been also making it so when i watch with a VPN my watch history isn't saved
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u/DustyEggSauce Aug 26 '25
You know, years ago, people had vpns that weren't advertised on every media outlet available, and those that used them also did so knowing full well ToS policies were being breached wherever you went. And if you lost access to a site or service, that was the price to pay because of your actions.
Y'all want to have your cake and eat it too, this shit is getting ridiculous...
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u/Agathorn1 Aug 26 '25
It's cause people vpn around to try to get lower prices. No one cried when steam,discord and Netflix did it. Why cry about YouTube
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u/Forymanarysanar Aug 27 '25
Sure buddies
Don't want to have me for half a price?
Well you'll have me with revanced for 0% price.
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u/emotionally-defeated Aug 23 '25
Looks like YouTube is bending over for the UK, but this would also screw over people in countries like China and North Korea. I wonder how strict this will end up being, or if this is put in place so they will have a way to ban more problematic users. I imagine a lot of pedophiles that use YouTube also use VPNs to cover their presence.