YouTube is cracking down on tricks that spammers use to impersonate creators - The Verge

YouTube is introducing new policies to try and tackle its spam and scam problems. These include removing the option for channels to hide subscriber count and limiting the number of special characters used in channel names (both common tactics for impersonatin…

The latest attempt to tackle YouTubes rampant spam problem Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube has been having a tough time with spammers lately. Earlier this year, a bunch of big creat… [+1668 chars]

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