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Comment by evilksandr | Hacker News Reader

The video was published after Grammarly representatives identified the case as "The described behavior is a functionality limitation that does not affect the security and privacy of our product", disclosed the case and gave me permission to publish my research results. More details here https://hackerone.com/reports/1282282 . Аlso there in the files you can find the original videos that were published on my channel.

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How would google's automated system for detecting hacking instruction videos know that grammarly doesn't consider something hacking and gave you permission to publish? You're posting something that looks like an exploit, and linking to multiple places that strongly resemble instructions for how to exploit a system, one of which is actively advertising "hiring hackers" and absolutely loaded with keywords and phrases that are going to trigger the algorithm.

Ok, I agree with the keywords (not with content, which Grammarly mentioned as "not affect the security and privacy of our product"). But YT algorithm has been thinking about that 4 months after I published these videos and terminated my account (without any strikes) 2 days after YT terms was changed https://www.youtube.com/t/terms

In the community guidelines, they note:

> We may terminate your channel or account for repeated violations of the Community Guidelines or Terms of Service. We may also terminate your channel or account after a single case of severe abuse, or when the channel is dedicated to a policy violation.

And for their purposes your posts include linked content. You have a channel that only posts videos that the algorithm likely flags as hacking instructions, and you've linked to a site that very likely has been flagged by the algorithm multiple times. The recent change in the YT terms of service likely coincides with a minor patch to YT's moderation algorithm which pushed your videos over the detection threshold.

This explanation looks quite convincing.

What was the title and description of the videos on your channel?

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