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by tjpnz 1612 days ago
YouTube could at least make it harder for scammers by not promoting streams through the algorithm or at least not showing them unless there's a subscription. I would also argue that they shouldn't just give everybody the ability to livestream at first given how many of the scammer accounts are new. That strikes me as a common sense solution.

If both were implemented I suspect these sorts of scams would no longer be worth the effort.

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>I would also argue that they shouldn't just give everybody the ability to livestream at first

They don't. You have to verify your channel first using a phone number.