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It was probably easy for Oracle to identify that both accounts were being used to serve this site of questionable legality. And having multiple accounts is probably against Oracle's ToS anyway.


AFAIK there is nothing illegal about YouTube frontend sites.

While they may in some way violate Google TOS, that is not a legal matter.


In the United States violating the TOS of a web site is technically a criminal offense under the CFAA, although the government is choosing currently not to prosecute most of these offenses[0]; but beware as that is simply a policy that can be ignored at any time it is useful.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-announces-...




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