YouTube's BS content policies with playlists

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Years ago, I lost many saved favorites of burps and farts on YouTube because they flagged ME for my favorites playlist when those videos aren’t even mine. It didn’t make any fucking sense.

I log in today and it happened AGAIN. This time specifically with my “Farts” playlist.

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It’s. So. Fucking. Stupid. If they have an issue with any of these videos why do they punish people who favorited them? It’s even dumber because this is a private playlist.

I’m not sure what to do and I wondered if anyone else experienced this. I remember asking a long time ago when it first happened to me but it seemed like it didn’t happen to anyone else. It HAS to have happened to one of you. I’m afraid of moving forward and clicking on “Take Action” unless I know how to otherwise “save” my playlist. I opened a new window and looked through my channel, but it seems like they took down the Farts playlist already because I can’t find it.

I think I can scroll through the videos in this window so at the very least I could take screenshots (it would take a super long time and take up about 23245252 screenshots). That’s if I absolutely have no other choice.

EDIT: It seems like I can still click on the videos in this specific window so I may just painstakingly collect all the links of all these videos to save them, then “Take Action”.

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This has happened to me twice. I stopped making and saving playlists on YouTube years ago specifically for this reason. It’s extremely draconian to give my channel a strike or 2 because of a playlist I either made or saved of a video(s) hosted for years on YOUR own site was found to violate your own terms. So I either bookmark or outright save the videos, I seriously do not trust YouTube. They actually banned my account too back in 2020 (out of the blue, on the basis of scams and misleading content when I literally posted 0 content) and then reinstated it after finding no wrong-doing… but not without me literally being scolded by support or told I must’ve done something wrong and to basically fuck off until they finally looked into it. Terrible platform.

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so I presume you went ahead and clicked “Take Action”? I still have my laptop open to that window because I gotta go through the videos and save them. I’m afraid that if I move forward I will lose them all.