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“I Screwed Up – Don't Fall for This Facebook Scam ”

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Update: It is fixed https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugxa92uvdfpyB5fF8zx4AaABCQ

Anyway, I think it is interesting to know the method they used in the scam.

[Just to be 100% clear, I'm not Skallagrim. I'm just a viewer of his channel.]

Tldr? Video seems extremely clickbaity

With the popularity of 10+ minute videos that obfuscate the content to drive more ad revenue, a TLDR for YouTube videos would be a fantastic initiative.

It could work as a community service, perhaps as a browser extension, though curating the summaries could be a challenge.

Any browser extension that lets you highlight text on web pages, persists to a centralized server, and lets you see what other people have highlighted[0] in a way that indicates highlighting popularity[1] would enable crowd-sourced "TLDR" for the entire web.

YouTube shows transcripts - though admittedly created through speech-to-text - for videos. (Click the ellipsis next to "SAVE", then "Open Transcript".)

It may be more realistic to get a critical mass of TLDRs if the service is more general, as I've described above. But there's nothing preventing YouTube-specific functionality, or even a YouTube-specific browser extension, powered by the same backend.

[0] Anonymized, of course.

[1] As a simple example, a #fff (white) background for passages that nobody has highlighted, through a #ff0 (brightest yellow) background for the most popularly highlighted passages.

"I clicked on a thing and inadvertently handed off admin rights for my own FB page to someone else"

https://youtu.be/UY8tDvK0yXc?t=183

It's not clickbait, it's a long rant. He was too angry to make a straightforward video. Unofficial tl;dw:

Someone offered to post a few "relevant" ads in his Facebook business page and he agreed.

He received an email from Facebook with a link to the "Facebook Business Manager". He clicked and agree to share the page with the other person.

[I guess he clicked more "I agree" buttons than what he says. I have zero proof, but users click in whatever button appears in the screen without reading.]

The other person got administrative privilege of the page, and removed him. So he was locked out of his own business page.

The other used posted a lot of spam in the page. IIRC he says the links are scammy. I'm not sure, but I'd better not try.

He tried to contact Facebook, but the support didn't solve the problem. In particular because it was the business page, not the personal page.

[Some time after this video, the problem was solved.]

> It's not clickbait, it's a long rant. He was too angry to make a straightforward video.

I'm struggling to imagine how a person faced with losing access to their site/facebook page or whatever is making a video at all. I mean, what does that thought process even look like? We're locked out, the passwords are changed! Only one course left! Stand back everyone, and get me a video camera!

And besides, who in 2019 would believe that a random stranger offering to post "legitimate" or "relevant" ads on their page or site is actually legitimate?

I don't understand the world any more.

If he didn't make a video that got some degree of internet traction, it's unlikely his problem would have been fixed.

I heard similar advice in few places now, if you want customer support got to twitter and make a big s*show. If you get some traction the company will contact you to stop bad pr.

Otherwise you will be stuck in 'not my problem'/'cant be done' hell.

Same way the only recourse for Google screwing you over is posting on HN.

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