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YouTube Help: Report inappropriate videos, channels and other content
Documents anonymous reporting, reason selection, review after report, report history, and separate reporting paths for videos, Shorts, comments, posts, live chat, ads, conversations, privacy, legal issues, TV, and signed-out California users.
Pattern Decisions This Source Supports
| Pattern | Supported decision | Required contract | Claim note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Report abuse | Choose report abuse when a user flags content, behavior, an account, or an object as potentially harmful, abusive, spam, illegal, impersonating, privacy-violating, or against community rules. | The Report action is reachable from the object being reported and carries object identity into the flow without asking users to manually re-enter obvious context. | Supports anonymity, reason selection, review expectations, report history, content-type-specific reporting, privacy, legal, and signed-out reporting states. |
Evidence Role
This source is treated as product-example evidence. Use it to validate the decision rules above, not as a visual style reference.
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