Protection

Ready for the rare, bad day: a takeover, a termination, a lost Google account. This counts what's switched on. It doesn't grade your channel.

5 of 7 steps done · YouTube emails forwarded · alerts to your phone

Steps

5 of 7 steps done

Alert contacts

Phone

Confirmed •••• 0148We text you, then call, if your channel looks taken over.

Backup email

Confirmed d•••@proton.meOutside Google: a way in if your Google account is taken, and where your weekly record goes.

Backup person

Not addedIf you don't answer an alert, we text and call them.

Changing a contact takes 24 hours, and your current contacts are told and can stop it. Someone who gets into your account can't quietly redirect your alerts.

YouTube emails

Forwarding works since 6 Aug · 2 YouTube emails received

Questions only you can answer

0 of 8 answered. The few things we can't see from here: other channels on your Google account, who has access, backups.

Connected channels

Read-only access through Google. We can't change anything on them.

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Weekly record

Every Monday we send your record, spreadsheets of your channel's details, videos and every change we saw, to your backup email outside Google. The first one goes out on Monday.

If someone takes over

If your channel is ever taken over, these are the steps, in order. Each one links to Google's or YouTube's own page.

1. 01
   Sign out every device
2. 02
   Change your password
3. 03
   Check your recovery info and 2-Step Verification
4. 04
   Report it to YouTube, with the log
5. 05
   Clean up