@Crown Now that is a workflow for a spreadsheet I'm not familiar with, Crown. You must be very good at Excel. I didn't find any announcement for it either, so I am in agreement; change for change's sake which usually isn't a good reason for change to occur.[DOUBLEPOST=1490427628,1490356483][/DOUBLEPOST]I just thought of another bad thing YouTube and Google in general has set up recently. If you use a Google Account from multiple devices, even in the same house, you get constantly challenged to prove who you are by taking a phone call. I don't have, and don't want to have, an active mobile phone right now; so 2 step authentication is not for me. This problem is two-pronged; and the other half of it is YouTube wanting a channel account to be verified by phone for full feature access.
I only have
one phone number; a landline. I own multiple channels going back to the time when every channel had to have its own account. I keep trying for verification on the ones I do want to verify, but normally I get the dreaded "This phone number has been used for verification too many times; please use another phone number". So I wait 60 days and try again. It will most likely take me decades to verify them all should I choose to do so...sigh.
What I don't understand here is why Google has decided to consider multiple uses of a single phone number for account verification "abuse of the system"?