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by ianai 2419 days ago
What does termination of your account mean? Are we talking losing your email/gmail account?
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If the Markiplier situation is any indication, then your entire google account, gmail and all.

https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1193216884197314560

So in other words it's the Google counterpart of Amazon banning users for too many returns but without disclosing how some algorithm determines what is too many.

I can see some unfortunate users learning the hard way why reliance on these huge cloud services can backfire. And some people may just create a lot of secondary accounts so they can continue uploading whatever they want, so I'm not sure Google will actually get improvements from this TOS.

Seems unlikely that the two situations are comparable. Though I'm sure YouTube will keep banning people for no discernable reason, but internally they're likely marked as "spammers" or some other unwanted group. The unprofitable will probably just have their videos deleted.