were available for weeks without even being able to be removed

A priori, YouTube has a series of filters and conditions that must be met whenever any of us wants to upload a video to the platform. Obviously, Pornography is something that is totally prohibited on YouTubeand when uploading a video of these characteristics we can face blocking the account.

But a small community of people who aim to search for adult content on YouTube has discovered a bug in how see this content on YouTube, even if they have deleted the channels where it is hosted. And this community detected a very explicit video of one of PornHub’s main actresses that could be consumed on YouTube without problems.

A community that searches for nudes on YouTube that met its goal

Although 404media claims that there have been many videos that have been found on YouTube and that They have been available for several weeks. But it wasn’t something normal. These videos as a whole had differences in their YouTube interface, which suggested that it was a bug and that is why they could be viewed without impediments. These ‘errors’ meant that the title of the video or the account that had published it could not be seen. In this way, although the video could be seen at the bottom, there was nothing of what we are used to seeing.

But the really interesting thing about all this is that the videos that could be seen were originally uploaded by an account that was removed from the platform for violating its content policyand nude stuff. And even though these accounts were blocked, their videos could still be consumed (when they shouldn’t be).

“This In fact does not bypass the algorithm [de YouTube]. In fact, YouTube detects the video almost instantly […] However, we used a bug that makes the video unable to be deleted“This is how one of the members of this community explains how they take advantage of a bug to be able to upload videos that cannot be deleted.

According to what has been investigated, this failure works through the video tagging system when it is uploaded to YouTube. People who want to share this content break it writing millions of characters in the tags field (which has a character limit that can be skipped quickly with a line break). This causes some of the videos to become “non-deletable”, although with a kind of bug in its interface.

Currently, the exploit that was used in the tagging system appears to have been fixed due to the great impact it has had on X. But there are still some videos that are still online even though they have passed YouTube filters and their accounts have been deleted. In short, nothing is perfect and it can be easy to find an error in a platform to break its own rules as we see in this community whose mission is to search for a nude on YouTube.

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