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YouTube comments keep getting re-enabled #99

Open abm-devmonk-purple opened 5 years ago

abm-devmonk-purple commented 5 years ago

This isn't an issue with the website, but I thought to add this here for reference. There are a couple long-standing issues with YouTube that result in unintentional enabling of comments for videos:

1) New videos uploaded through the v3 API do not respect the default "no comments" setting. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/29463431. 2) The v3 API does not currently support editing comment settings on videos. See https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35175046.

The workaround is to manually ensure that any new upload has comments disabled. There is also a way to batch disable comments by going to the old studio https://www.youtube.com/my_videos?ar=3&o=U, and then doing a bulk edit.

coderintherye commented 5 years ago

@abm-devmonk-purple That's a real shame that Google never fixed the bug in API v3. Do you disable comments on all videos for the account? If so I wonder if you might do the following? If so perhaps you could try this: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/10694/can-i-disable-comments-by-default-on-my-youtube-videos