How to delete a YouTube account in a few steps

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If you are tired of YouTube and do not want to use the service again, you can easily delete your account without losing your Google email . Some time ago it was deleted very quickly, you just had to enter the channel settings and in Advanced there was the option to delete the account. Now you have to go a few more turns, but it won't take too long either.

Currently the delete account button is no longer operational, it is necessary to go a few more steps to say goodbye to YouTube . To start, go to the web and click on your account (in the upper right corner where the image you have assigned appears). Once you are inside, click on the nut icon to enter YouTube settings . You will see a new page where your account information is displayed with several sections: Overview, linked accounts, privacy, notifications, playback and connected televisions.

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In the Overview section, click on the option "Edit in Google" (located right next to your name). Once you've selected it, it will send you to your Google+ wall . It will be right here where you can delete your YouTube account . Click again on your username (upper right corner) and enter "My account." It will take you to a new page where various options appear to change your account settings. Of the three columns that are displayed, you have to look at the third ( Account preferences ) and click on Delete your account and some services.

In the description of this section, it is indicated that if you are no longer interested in using specific Google services you can delete them from here. You can even delete your Google account entirely. This is not what we want to do now, of course. Then go into Delete products. It will ask you to re-enter your password (it will not be necessary if you have it memorized). In the new page that appears you will find the services to which you are registered, being able to get rid of the one you want. YouTube will be among them. To delete it all at once, you just have to click on the trash can icon.

It is your decision and we do not know what is the reason that drives you to leave YouTube, but remember that it is a service in which Google increasingly invests more time and money. Last April it was ten years since the first video uploaded and some chilling figures were published. Currently the company estimates that more than 300 hours of video are uploaded every minute . This means that this year alone, fifty days of recording have been added every 24 hours . In addition, it has more than one billion unique visitors per month and more than one million advertisers. These data reveal what many of us already know, YouTube It stopped being a simple video upload page a long time ago to become a big business.