YouTubes intrigue in Russia lasted until next week
- Mar 20
This is not the first month in Russia speak of a possible blocking of access to YouTube.
Claims to the most popular video hosting of the world have long come down at Roskomnadzor. It is not only about different links to the information that is recognized for prohibited in Russia, but YouTube has not yet deleted.
As well as about the law "On landing" for IT companies. According to him, foreign social networks should open official representation in Russia, to register a personal account on the website of Roskomnadzor, to accommodate the feedback form for the Russian audience, put the Russian attendance counter.
The last condition for any foreign company looks practically impossible, and now many Western companies temporarily suspended activities in Russia. As a result, the office for the execution of the law remained only at the Viber Japanese messenger, and Apple and Spotify what was discovered were frozen.
So far, for YouTube multiple fines, it not only turned off the monetization from Russian activity for all domestic channels, but also blocked those that were associated with the state.
There were even innocuous collections of the "Gosperary" with the archives of Soviet films, radio and performances. The total number of limited Russian channels on this article at the end of the week approached 57, and the list was the largest Russian TV channels that have already emigrated on Rutube.
On why the platform is not very suitable for the rest of the authors, we told here:
In addition, in recent weeks on YouTube, a provocative advertising has appeared, loaded, probably from other countries. Although now advertising in Russia on hosting rollers, in general, it is not shown, still the company did not solve the problem.
It remains a mystery, why always harsh rules for posting advertisements and their moderation, suddenly, gave a large-scale failure.
Officially, YouTube require not only to fulfill the law "On landing", but also restore locked channels. Here, of course, a question arises than the Russian channels bad on Rutube, where they will provide the best conditions, unlike ordinary authors.
On the other hand, video hosting could work on the way of Telegram, leaving any point of view, but it is hardly possible, given that YouTube owns an American company, and local authorities even managed to ensure restrictions on the work of Visa, MasterCard from local businesses.
This week, they expressed the hopes that Youtube will be formed and fulfilling all Russian conditions, at the same time they sounded unexpected calls to return the monetization to ordinary Russians. Taking into account all the circumstances, such a move in the near future looks unlikely.
And this means that YouTube may well be blocked in Russia. Different statements speak about this open text in recent weeks. Informal comments add that this decision was postponed due to the restriction of access to Instagram in Russia from 14.03.2022.
At the same time, again, by rumors, the question with a possible blocking YouTube should be decided by the end of the next week.
In England and different countries in Europe, the lists of sanctions at the same time restricted the work of Russian state media. It is unclear how YouTube may not comply with this limitation, being between not two, but a lot of lights, trying to fulfill increasingly complex requirements for different regions of the world.
On the features of video hosting work, you can learn from our article:
Taking into account that the recommendation tape on the service is made up of the preferences of the viewer, the presence of materials in the database of educational lectures, for example, for IT specialists, as well as free cartoons that parents entertain children via Smart TV on weekends, such a solution may touch many users. Service, which for an ordinary consumer is replaced by nothing yet.
In addition, it is not clear how this kind of blocking will affect the performance of the Internet, because YouTube is largely tied to Google's capacities, i.e. There may be problems with access to Gmail mail, document service, search engine, cards, Russian sites, where plugins of all these models are installed.
For example, when YouTube disabled the display of advertising in Russia, on those sites where these ads were loaded, a slowdown in work began due to calls to Google in an attempt to upload these pictures and the inability to do this. Especially, where the picture code was loaded before the rest of the site's page.
I would like to hope that YouTube will deal with the disorder in the moderation of advertisements, and both sides come to a compromise without access restrictions.
By the way, in addition to blocking, the legislation provides for a variety of solutions for the punishment of those who do not fulfill the law "On landing". However, not all of his measures will be able to use. For example, the ban on the placement of Youtube advertising has implemented first for its part.
Traffic slowdown remained, deleting from search results (should be assumed in Russian services, because Google is the search engine itself), access lock and other less critical measures for users.
Here you still need to consider that YouTube is far from being so loyal to the VPN services as an instagram. When you try to download video to your channel through a VPN hosting, it may well block the channel itself for violating the localization of the author's location.
Since the service has a rigid system of various kinds of regional restrictions when the content from one country may be inaccessible in Chert. The use of VPN would be harmful, so YouTube may punish for it.
You should also not forget that the YouTube channels can be removed by hosting after 6 months of inactivity. It is not about downloading the video, but about the entrances to the account, viewing and comments on other videos, what needs to be noted for such a period.
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