A YouTube channel is a hobby for many, a dream for many and a source of income for many. One thing is true for everyone that YouTube channel is connected with our emotions, our love.
However, recently, the trend of hacking YouTube channels seems to have increased more than before. How to protect our favorite channel from hacking; Today I will write about it.
What to do to keep your YouTube channel safe
1. Create strong passwords
If you want to protect any account from hacking, the most basic thing you need to do is create a strong password. This applies not only to YouTube, but to all other sites including Facebook, Instagram.
2. Update information for recovery
The YouTube restore option is an inherent security feature of the site. If your channel gets hacked, it's so you can get your channel back.
So if you want a recovery email from YouTube, use a different email address and a different phone number if you want a recovery phone number. One thing to note in this case, if you want recovery email and phone number, you should try to use your own email and phone number. Because using someone else's phone number or email may mean that person may not be there when you need them. Therefore, immediate recovery may not be possible.
When hackers log in from another device using the primary email, the recovery email will be notified in the form of an alert. If this device is not yours, you will understand that hackers have logged into your account from another device and then you can take necessary measures.
3. Create or convert a YouTube channel to a brand account
There are two types of YouTube channels.
• 1. Personal account
• 2. Brand account
1. Personal account:
A personal account is a YouTube channel that has an owner, that is, the first person who opens the YouTube channel using an email address.
2. Brand account:
A YouTube channel account that has multiple collaborators, i.e. a primary owner and multiple collaborative owners or co-owners, is a brand account.
You must create a YouTube channel as a brand account. If the channel is also a personal account, convert it to a brand account. Because in the case of personal accounts, hackers remove and change passwords, recovery emails, etc. at the moment of hacking. However, it takes 1 day to remove the primary brand account owner. This means that even after the account has been hacked, there is still 1 day to restore the channel.
Receives a notification when the owner is removed. So one can easily understand if the channel is hacked.
4. Knowledge of brand account email
A brand account has an email that cannot be changed or deleted.
How to find a brand account email address
• 1. First, enter the brand account from my Google account.
• 2. After logging in, you will see a list of all brand accounts you have. (You must be logged in to your email at this time)
• 3. Then find the brand email you are looking for.
• 4. After finding the desired email, click on that email and enter the option "View general information". Unique dresses will be available by email. Save this address carefully.
Why does it work?
Even if hackers hack or delete your email, that brand account email cannot be deleted or changed. So even if a hacker enters a different email, you can still find your channel because the brand account email is the same. However, in this case, you need to email YouTube support to get the channel back.
5. Enable two-factor authentication for email
Don't forget to enable two-factor authentication on the email used for your favorite YouTube channel. Not doing this is one of the biggest reasons YouTube channels get hacked. Most YouTube channels fall into the hands of hackers very easily due to this vulnerability. So whatever else, don't neglect this task at all.
6. Do not click on any suspicious links sent in emails
The primary task of black hat hackers is to send various phishing links to hack an account. They usually get users interested in clicking these links through various offers. And if users click on those links, they'll instantly get access to that account.
Finally, a few words about securing your YouTube channel
If it's not necessary, don't make someone else, but make them the manager. And if more people want to do business together, then it's a different matter, because then everyone has the same rights and gets more money.
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