| My friends, I am devastated. I have a little Youtube channel (name can be found in my “about” section) that has in the past 3 years been part of my life. It started a few days ago. I was visiting a friend in another country and using his Wifi with my notebook. It worked without issues for several days until I suddenly had to confirm I was not a robot and was logged out. I was told suspicious activities had been carried out on my account (which surprises me) and that I had to answer my security question (which I did correctly). Then I received a verification code on my backup address (which I entered correctly) only to be told Google couldn’t verify I was the owner of the account. Since that day, I was not able to log in any more. I tried the account recovery a dozen times, with my usual device and from my usual location. I entered all data correctly (password, security question, verification code) and still do not get access to my account. It seems that this is the end of my channel. It just started to become successful with half a million views in the last month. Filmmaking has become part of my life and Youtube offered me an easy way to proof my talent. I invested three years to get to this point. I don’t know if I have the force to start from scratch again. By the way, I never had any strikes or other issues with none of my videos. I checked the cookies in my browser and noticed that some cookies have been added by Youtube on the day of my being locked out and the days after when I tried to recover the account. Should I delete those cookies? Might they tell Youtube that my device is suspicious? Or should I be careful with deleting cookies as not to lose the last hook I have to convince Youtube that I am still the same person that used to log in the months before? I am happy about any helpful idea. |
Might be a nice blog article if you write down your steps how to resolve such problems.
Also: good luck!