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I didn’t screw around on YouTube but I did get banned from YouTube for some odd reason last month.

The rest of my google account is still working.

You’re right though. I had this HUGE sinking feeling for the initial moments when realizing what had happened. Regretting not having moved my Gmail away yet and so on.

This is still a huge risk. Maybe if whatever YouTube trip I ran over was more severe, my entire Google account would have been banned.

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And now remember that a substantial amount of us had accounts on both services before they merged. I'd like to see them slapped hard for this in the future. Was I supposed to read multiple dictionaries worth of legalese to understand that they now unilaterally have the right to ban my (now not so important) google account if I call someone a troll on youtube?

That is both deeply concerning and somewhat reassuring at the same time. Best of luck with recovering your YouTube account.

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