Video about uvlen scam "age restricted".

Starts with a print of the Mail Online, Science and Tech. Way too dangerous for under-age viewers. ;-D

Hagen

Was probably flagged by a seller. Sad outcome.

Bill Kerr

I don't get it. You're doing the world a lot of good and YT is stomping on it like a herd of cows!

Nani Isobel

1. "Was flagged to us" means someone reported it. The video was probably reviewed by an average human. 2. The average human - not being skilled in the arts - recognised certain words and themes, so consulted a little black book to find out what its masters' policy was. 3. Which was age restriction. 4. Hanlon's Rule; which is boring like its father, Occam, but useful.

Mike Page

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=uvlen I've visited the charlatans and reported them as misleading and fraudulent.

I have reported these wallies, but I don't think there is much point- plus they seem to have attracted a\ lot of negative comments anyway- lets hope that people realise that its a fake.- ps Clive- sent you a message in facebook re diffused leds. fast changing rgbs- if you want some I can send you.

Mike Hughes

Youtube is going down one! Where charlatans can foist any amount of fraudulent crap and get away with it, people who call bullshit on this crap get it in the neck. What a crock!

Uh, Cllive, I am still upset about this. The travesty of a company advertising something that is physically impossible is giving me a migraine. Despite the suggestion of using other products to test UV radiation with this "fantastic product" (because it belongs in a fantasy world), how about another round of "banana test", comparing the results of your real UV light and the phony product ? In my head I think it's not worth the trouble of banging heads against YT's AI and rules, but my spirit is really restless.

Carlos Capriotti

I think that if you've set your account to allow restricted content, you won't be warned.

Lol I had a warning on a video I posted of a helicopter landing. Was reported for copyright for some music. How helicopter blades and wind noise can be like music I'll never know

Tazz1669

Do you think the YT minion picked up on you saying "Wow, look at that, it's amazing ...it's sterilizing everything" at 5:43 ...but was too dumb to determine that it was sarcasm? Having said that, I did have to cover the children's eyes at the start of the video when you showed that well-known 'load of sheet' that purports to be a truthful and accurate example of news media 📰

Phil in the kitchen

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Tommy Zaharakis

What's really scary to me is how people might be buying products like this thinking it is safely removing all traces of certain viruses when actually it is doing nothing at all, thereby putting their health and those of people around them at risk

Incredible that YT would deem exposing possible scam products to be "age inappropriate". Their reviewers must either be completely technically illiterate or they are just bowing to the demands of the manufacturer.

Well I just reported their videos. I don't need my kids seeing content like that on youtube and I won't stand for it. Neither will my kids...or their kids. Did i mention that they're both in their 30s and are married? Youtube didn't ask me that.

Michael Thompson

reduced visibility. It'll get deranked in search results for the product, and that's what the seller needs.

Moz in Oz

I'm a little confused. How does "age restriction" serve any purpose here except to antagonize the creator.

It sounds to me that the scam company is a little upset that you are narking them out. I suspect they kept flagging it until they got results. I hope YT fixes this soon.

Matt Larson

GoDaddy's response is the correct one. They do domain service; they do not evaluate the content or illegality of any website and do not even have staff able to do so. There is an organization dedicated to such things: the legal system.

Wolf

Pretty much this, if you're a scammer and you get shitloads of views YouTube won't do shit about you, if you're a smaller YouTuber who gets comparatively few and you call these scams out you'll get demonetised/etc. because you bring in less ad revenue than the scammers. Ditto the fucking conspiracy nutbars, the only reason YouTube doesn't do anything about the is because they bring in ad revenue, screw the "greater good".

Jrandom Bob

Guaranteed they're paying!

Mike Cowen

Yep. It's called truth. Can't be exposing the kiddies to truth. They might develop the urge to think for themselves and/or question authority (or everything). Its downright subversive, I tell ya!

Mike Cowen

Given the huge amount of data uploaded to youtube every minute, I doubt there is any human intervention in the process of first analysis for demonetisation or other issues. Much more efficient to down rate it based on computer "AI" and then wait for the video producer to ask for it to be reviewed.

AlfaGuy

Can't agree more than this!

Rumor has it, most of YT's machine learning and artificial intelligence is actually human-based. While it may be true that an algorithm picked this video up, based on the combination of words, and eventually image recognition, there could have been an actual human being watching this video, analyzing it. The problem with that is - says the same rumor - the human being does NOT decide if your video is violating the rule or not. They will follow and ALLEGED list of rules, fill in a form, and that is what will actually decide what is an infringement and what is not. Said list of rules, as one would expect, changes from time to time, just like what happens to your PayPal agreement, etc. I am not defending anyone, or finding excuses. All I am saying is that things change: in one day you are on their good side, the next, you are the Antichrist. Technical channels/people will never be kosher, folks... We are always exposing the guts of something and people can't cope with the truth.

Carlos Capriotti

Fight back, go to all the UVLEN vids and report them as misleading.

Jamie

What a crock of turd.

When you posted the first video I reported the UVLEN.com domain to GoDaddy (their host) saying it was an obvious scam, explained how it’s an impossible product and that during this global pandemic they should take swift action, they said: “We have reviewed your complaint but at this time we are unable to take action without a court order. GoDaddy does not allow illegal content on our customer's websites. However, as a hosting provider, it is not our place to determine if the site you have mentioned is actually engaging in illegal activities.” Good to GoDaddy protecting the scammers and now YouTube has decided it’s their place to shit can the reach of your video without any proof what's actually unsuitable about it while keeping the UVLEN channel and all of its videos unaffected, but don’t worry, I’m sure your video was manually reviewed by an experimental bot algorithm. *Also if you live in Korea you will probably have much better luck reporting them to a local cybercrimes task force.

WizardTim

Must protect the young ones from scepticism. Can't have them doubting anything.

Scott Miller

I'm sorry man. These are the times I can do nothing, but am glad to be a supporter. F those guys. WE love you

Michael Thompson

Pretty sure alphabet doesn't care much about the ccp, Google left china for a great number of years because they disagreed with them. Also, keep in mind that a big chunk of Google and YT devs/engineers are based out of CA. Finally, this is a tiny product with no market, you really think the ccp is going to use their weight or influence on a single YouTube video? Please think before you speak.

blakethepatton

The age restriction is a right pain as these only play when logged in. Sure enough this video will not play in a private browsing tab.

Seán Byrne

We should start a site where we can support creators directly and help minimize the effects of YT vagaries.

Robert Sanges

YouTube is owned by Alphabet who in turn is heavily influenced by the CCP; so Im not surprised.

Myrk

Bots at their best!

There should be a protest by all of the big Youtube content producers where you all put out a White Noise video at the same time in protest of youtube's policies.

Mike Hanley

Wtf 🤦‍♂️

YouTube being YouTube.... *Sigh*

Tim Albers

I could watch the video just fine, without any warnings or restrictions. Now I am concerned that Youtube is not protecting me from such content... or else, just how old do they think I am?...

Lilla Gubben

My guess is the seller didn’t appreciate your views on the matter and has sent a legion on chinese reviewers to make reports on your vid....

Michael Gilchrest

Lol

blakethepatton

Scam videos bring lots of eyeballs and eyeballs bring lots of advertising dollars. YouTube being YouTube...

Erik Erik

Obviously the makers lodged the complaint because you sussed out their bullshit fake uvc scam filter

If you'd downright said it was fake in the title, I wonder if that would have made a difference.

Simon Pain

Using Lighting Gels are now age restricted. I now need to tell my daughter that parental guidance is required for Gelling the Source 4's at work.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Sounds normal for YouTube, get behind scams and and let large companies break as many of there rules as they want. I bet the scammer is paying YouTube for advertising.

Cleveland Prescott

This confirms my suspicion. No humans work for Google.

I must've missed the naughty stuff when I watched it

AMK

Wow, good thing they're protecting children from information about how a harmless blue filter is a scam.

fluffy

When I clicked the link to see the video just now, the Android YouTube app had a warning box come up saying "this video may be inapropriate for some users. Continue/Go back". Ridiculous.

AI never fails! You must be wrong, Clive

Peter Stimpel

Reviewed by YT returds

The Tinkering Shed

That makes no sense at all.