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Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)
Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
I just wanted to share an experience as a warning to fellow users of hacker news and in the hope that somehow someway 7 years and countless hours can be recovered.<p>I've never posted anything like this, but this is the only place I have any hope of a human response after youtube deleted 700 videos created for internal training for our company. My wife started a company that helps people transition from colleges in their home country (for instance the IIT system in India) by translating their credit system into the American educational credit system.<p>She utilized a youtube channel with unlisted videos to explain to internal employees the nuances of difficult evaluation types, for instance how to determine for CEGEPs in Quebec the difference between upper secondary and post secondary. Another example would be how to award credits for MBBS programs from U.K modeled educational system (West Africa, India etc).<p>Youtube sent her 3 strikes in one week. On videos that were 4 years old, indicating cyber bullying. These videos were unlisted and literally contained only incredibly dense, rather boring videos covering the nooks and crannies of various educational systems and how they relate to each other. When she responded, she received an auto reply that stated you get a reply within 2 business days. No further response despite repeated requests within the system, then tweets, and finally submitting a new appeal form from scratch to which the reply was nothing can be done because too much time had passed.<p>This content was incredibly time intensive to create and was basically another job on top of her position as CEO. As a small company this was a devastating blow. Her work youtube account is now removed.<p>Personally the cynic in me speculates that google cleans out low hanging fruit, using metrics, and there was nothing in the content that triggered the bot at all, just a case of over 700 somewhat lengthy videos that were getting almost no traffic, and they get to delete them and hide behind the byzantine garbage fire that is their "support".<p>If you work for the youtube division and can help, I'm begging you please send me a message or reply to this post, it seems this is the only way to rectify this kind of problem. If there is anyway to download the videos that is all we are asking for.<p>-jdh
Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories
Happy 15th birthday Hacker News
Lorinda Cherry, author of dc, bc, eqn has died
Akamai to Acquire Linode
Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?
What is the main thing that made your business take off and start to see success that you're kicking yourself you didn't start doing it much earlier?<p>Thanks HN!
Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act
Google Search Is Dying
A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
Last February there was, in my opinion, a really uplifting thread with the same title¹. I'd like to see all the cool new things going on, and I'll steal the intro text from as89 to explain:<p><i>One where you don't care if it makes money or gets a lot of attention, but you are working on it regardless. I don't think I mean private hobbies, exactly, but projects that could or will be shared with others - you just don't care about the outcome.</i><p>¹ <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992782" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25992782</a>
Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station
Words known better by males than females, and vice versa
Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm
The data are clear: The boys are not all right
Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy
Heuristics that almost always work
Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone
Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually