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Sometimes YouTube's community guidelines grow stricter and retroactively affect existing content, with entire channels being taken down due to strikes on only a few videos, resulting in the collateral loss of all other videos, with one famous example being Mumkey Jones.<ref>{{Cite web |author=j aubrey |title=Mumkey Jones: YouTube's Most Wanted |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te8-ETSDgcs |website=YouTube |date=21 Jan 2019 |access-date=12 Apr 2026 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/Te8-ETSDgcs |archive-date=23 Jan 2024}}</ref>

===Forced sign-in===

Since 2025, the Android app and the web-app sometimes [[Forced account|require users to login]] to their Google accounts to "confirm you're not a bot".{{Citation needed}} They could require solving a [[CAPTCHA]], but they don't that. This, paired with [[Google#Phone number requirement for new accounts|Google's phone-number requirement]], makes it impossible for users to share a single "guest" account, as is typically the case for families sharing a smart TV.

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 Sometimes YouTube's community guidelines grow stricter and retroactively affect existing content, with entire channels being taken down due to strikes on only a few videos, resulting in the collateral loss of all other videos, with one famous example being Mumkey Jones.<ref>{{Cite web |author=j aubrey |title=Mumkey Jones: YouTube's Most Wanted |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te8-ETSDgcs |website=YouTube |date=21 Jan 2019 |access-date=12 Apr 2026 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/Te8-ETSDgcs |archive-date=23 Jan 2024}}</ref>
+===Forced sign-in===
+Since 2025, the Android app and the web-app sometimes [[Forced account|require users to login]] to their Google accounts to "confirm you're not a bot".{{Citation needed}} They could require solving a [[CAPTCHA]], but they don't that. This, paired with [[Google#Phone number requirement for new accounts|Google's phone-number requirement]], makes it impossible for users to share a single "guest" account, as is typically the case for families sharing a smart TV.
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