YouTube removed video location for new uploaded videos

Hirudov

Hirudov

Posting Mad!
Have you noticed that YouTube no longer allows you to set video location for new videos?
I know many of you didn't use the function so you won't miss it at all, but 95% of my videos were geo location tagged. I used it almost all the videos, except for the ones filmed at home. Yet another immediate change without prior announcement or is it just a bug that will be fixed soon? Do you still have it for new uploads?

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Scotty Byrd said:
i honestly don't mind i don't want youtube linking my address lol
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It wasn't about linking your address, but adding video locations helped some videos by placing them on Google maps. I had once videos filmed at particular streets that appeared in Google maps for the street. They were receiving good amount for views from there
 
I used to fill this out even though the location nor recording date hasn't appeared since YouTube changed their design multiple times. I remember it would appear when you looked at the stats under the video.
 
I too noticed this the other day. I mark the location of all of my videos. Kinda bummed that it's gone.

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I'm only speculating but there were probably privacy and safety issues with that feature, particularly with children's videos being recorded at home.
 
I used it in my videos, since our videos are always in different locations. But one day, out of curiosity, I did a search for videos near my home, and found a cluster of videos on a nearby street. When I looked at the videos, it was my best friend's 10 year old son, who had created a YouTube account just to play around with. Shaky, blurry vertical videos of light saber battles with his little cousins, etc. Problem is that the location almost exactly pinpointed his house. I gave my friend a call to let him know and warn him of the potential problems it could cause and walked him through removing the location from each of the videos.
 
504RoadTrips said:
I used it in my videos, since our videos are always in different locations. But one day, out of curiosity, I did a search for videos near my home, and found a cluster of videos on a nearby street. When I looked at the videos, it was my best friend's 10 year old son, who had created a YouTube account just to play around with. Shaky, blurry vertical videos of light saber battles with his little cousins, etc. Problem is that the location almost exactly pinpointed his house. I gave my friend a call to let him know and warn him of the potential problems it could cause and walked him through removing the location from each of the videos.
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Yeah, I'm sure that's the kind of reason why this feature has been removed.
 
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