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As I work the YouTube Support Community, I am noticing a phenomenon which is truly unsettling.
I'm finding more and more people who seem to have channels in the US, UK, India or other Partner Program Participant Countries; but upon deeper probing, the creator in question turns out to be resident in a non-YPP Participant Country.
I'm wondering something at this point in time. Is the world financial situation so terrible that YouTube is now considered an answer to poverty, to the point committing of Fraud at the international level in an effort to join the YouTube Partner Programme, thus risking their ability to remain YouTube Creators?
Even worse; don't those who do this realize that a channel stated to be in a participant country linked to an AdSense in a non-participant country will be a dead giveaway which will end with them being banned from both services, while falsifying the AdSense country will get them banned even faster when they cannot supply a physical address and banking info matching the stated country of residence?
I'm finding more and more people who seem to have channels in the US, UK, India or other Partner Program Participant Countries; but upon deeper probing, the creator in question turns out to be resident in a non-YPP Participant Country.
I'm wondering something at this point in time. Is the world financial situation so terrible that YouTube is now considered an answer to poverty, to the point committing of Fraud at the international level in an effort to join the YouTube Partner Programme, thus risking their ability to remain YouTube Creators?
Even worse; don't those who do this realize that a channel stated to be in a participant country linked to an AdSense in a non-participant country will be a dead giveaway which will end with them being banned from both services, while falsifying the AdSense country will get them banned even faster when they cannot supply a physical address and banking info matching the stated country of residence?