In this situation, most (at least most in our neck of the woods) would probably agree that it is a good reason to hide your real identity and make your comments harder to trace, as opposed to wanting to throw racial slurs around without facing any consequences. For example, if you are living in a country that takes punitive action against people who criticise the government, you would naturally not want your comments criticising the government to be traceable. That been said, there are some more noble reasons to be concerned about YouTube comments being traced. If someone was making illegal comments (mainly hate speech) or making comments that incriminate them in some illegal behaviour, they would naturally not want their comments to be traceable, as that could lead to legal action being taken against them. There are many reasons why someone might not want their comments to be traced and, if we’re being honest, the majority of them are not particularly savoury. If you don’t save payment details and you access YouTube using a VPN, YouTube will have no practical way of tracing your comments to a real person or location. They will also have a specific address if you have saved any payment details, such as for YouTube Premium (or at least the billing address of the person whose card was used). YouTube can view your IP address and, with it, they can estimate your geographical location. Now, there are things you can do to limit what that tracing means. Obviously, then, if you are leaving a YouTube comment, YouTube can trace that comment to you. This ensures YouTube have a good amount of ways to track you, from your viewing history to the IP address you routinely log in from. In order to leave a comment on a YouTube video, you have to be logged in to YouTube. If you have said something that breaks YouTube’s guidelines, they can report your comment to YouTube, but that will result in YouTube taking direct action (if they take any action at all), and will not see the reporting party learn your whereabouts or identity. Random users who are perhaps upset with something you have said have no plausible way of tracing your comments. Privacy is obviously a major concern these days, and something we have talked about on this very blog, but how private are your comments? After all, it’s one thing to be told your expectation of privacy is limited if you are going to upload videos to YouTube, but entirely another to be told your offhand comments could be traced.Ĭan YouTube Comments Be Traced? – Yes, the reality of this kind of situation is that everything can be traced to some degree, it is more a matter of how badly the unseen party wants to track your comments.
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