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by fyi1183 2906 days ago
> once the humans at youtube are alerted about the problem, the videos are put back up, as in the case of the blender videos. But if it was an intentional human takedown, the videos wouldn't be put back up.

It could also have been an intentional trial balloon, to test the waters to see how much they can get away with. Politicians do that kind of thing all the time.
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Buge 2906 days ago
So you're saying that it was an intentional thing, and not just a bug? PhasmaFelis was agreeing that it was just a bug, and that's what I was replying to.
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fyi1183 2906 days ago
I'm saying that it very well could have been intentional, yes. Not in the sense of somebody at Google targeting Blender specifically (that's possible but seems very unlikely), but in the sense of somebody at Google trying to see how far they can push forced monetisation through algorithmic coercion.

I don't think we have enough information to say for certain what really happened.

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_hyn3 2906 days ago
> I don't think we have enough information to say for certain what really happened.

https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blende... has been updated. (and you are correct.)

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