Porn as a shield: YouTube discovered a cunning scheme to save advertising accounts from being blocked

An interesting scheme was revealed on YouTube: channel owners who are facing blocking for pirated content began to cheat. Instead of waiting to be banned for copyright infringement, they intentionally fill their channels with explicit adult content.

Here's what it looks like in practice. The channel is working quietly, gaining hundreds of thousands of subscribers and millions of views. And then suddenly he changes all the video covers and design to openly pornographic images. Of course, such channels are quickly banned - after all, such content is strictly prohibited on YouTube.

There have been a lot of similar cases in recent weeks. For example, the MrTech channel with 170 thousand subscribers in early November overnight turned from a decent project into something unacceptable. And in the archives of the network you can find other examples - the same Luckiest People went through similar metamorphoses.

Why all this circus? Here's what: if a channel is banned for copyright reasons, the AdSense advertising account associated with it also suffers. Google simply doesn't allow you to make money from piracy. But with bans for pornography, the story is different - here the approach is for some reason softer. Google AI confirms: in such cases, advertising accounts often remain alive, and frozen money is sometimes even returned.

It turns out that the cunning people have found a way to save the most valuable thing - a working AdSense account. The channel, of course, dies, but the verified advertising account can be used for new projects. And it looks like the authors of this “porn shield” scheme are already in full swing launching new channels.