This is unsurprising. They do this a lot with especially short usernames. I recently saw an interview with a German youtuber (@dima) where they talked about how youtube gave them this channel. In that case the channel still contained private videos and information of the previous owner, which I find somewhat shocking.
Easy fix: use youtube without a channel, e.g. using newpipe or yt-dlp.
Did you ever have it? When they introduced handles you had to specifically claim that name, otherwise you get @(name)-(random), it doesn't matter if you had /Switzerland as a channel url.
Precisely, and for a platform that markets itself as "your videos your platform" this is an important point to raise and remind folks of. Youtube is not yours or your friend. Avoid unless being paid, or deriving other value somehow.
Interesting https://www.youtube.com/Switzerland is still mine, but my user handle is gone. https://www.youtube.com/@Switzerland goes to swiss tourism but they have the handle @switzerland
This is unsurprising. They do this a lot with especially short usernames. I recently saw an interview with a German youtuber (@dima) where they talked about how youtube gave them this channel. In that case the channel still contained private videos and information of the previous owner, which I find somewhat shocking.
Easy fix: use youtube without a channel, e.g. using newpipe or yt-dlp.
> but my user handle is gone.
Did you ever have it? When they introduced handles you had to specifically claim that name, otherwise you get @(name)-(random), it doesn't matter if you had /Switzerland as a channel url.
I'm sure their terms of service allows them to do stuff like this
So Switzerland Tourism asked Youtube gor it?
Who cares? It's not your platform, you're just an user
Precisely, and for a platform that markets itself as "your videos your platform" this is an important point to raise and remind folks of. Youtube is not yours or your friend. Avoid unless being paid, or deriving other value somehow.
…they obviously care, hence the post
plenty of other people would care, too.
You cared enough to respond.
It's a soft reminder of that