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Demonetisation
Limited ads, no explanation, no recourse worth using.
The yellow icon arrives with a category rather than a reason, review restores some and not others with no visible difference between them, and the money lost during the wait is gone regardless of the outcome. Advertiser-friendly guidelines are enforced by a classifier and explained by a help page.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on YouTube Sucks
Filed under other categories, by people it happened to.
Appeals that never reach a human2026-08-07
How to tell whether your appeal ever reached a human — and what to do when it didn't
A rejection that arrives in under a minute, or at the same time of day every time, or in wording identical to someone else's, was decided by a system. There are tells, and knowing them changes what you do next.
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