Good question, and you’re right to be suspicious of most of the one-liner answers in that thread. This topic is more about policy and account history than gadgets.
First, there is a thing you’re describing. It’s usually referred to as repeat offender / circumvention of enforcement. In simple terms, if YouTube terminates a channel for serious or repeated violations and they determine that the same person is trying to come back by creating new channels, those new channels can be terminated automatically, sometimes without strikes or warnings. This is not theory, there are plenty of English-language cases where people lost fresh channels within days or weeks because they were linked to a previously banned creator.
That’s why isolation matters so much. If YouTube links multiple channels together and one of them violates policy, the others are at risk even if they’re clean. People often find this out the hard way.
Second important point that almost nobody mentions clearly: YouTube does not like proxies. This isn’t folklore. Google’s policies are very clear about “circumventing safeguards” and “masking location or identity to bypass enforcement”. Using proxies, VPNs, RDPs or shared cloud environments to appear as different users can fall under that if it’s used to evade limits, enforcement or previous actions. That’s also why many cheap RDP setups end up with dead channels, zero impressions, or silent throttling instead of an instant ban.
About your RDP experience, that’s actually very common. Many RDP IP ranges are already low trust or heavily reused. YouTube may not ban you, but it can simply decide “we don’t trust this environment” and your videos get almost no distribution.
Now, how people safely separate channels in practice, without assuming bad intent
The cleanest setup is not about tricks, it’s about clear ownership boundaries.
Each channel should have its own Google account, no shared recovery emails, no shared phone numbers if possible, no shared AdSense if you’re in a sensitive situation. If someone has a history of terminations, creating separate business entities and AdSense accounts under companies is often discussed in forums, because it creates a legitimate separation of ownership, not just technical camouflage.
On the device side, YouTube absolutely fingerprints devices and behavior, but that doesn’t mean “one PC = one channel forever”. What matters is consistency and legitimacy. Separate browser profiles, clean Google accounts, natural usage patterns, no rapid switching between channels, no shared login sessions, no automation-looking behavior. Acting like four different real people, not four bots living in the same body.
Phones work well for many people because they are naturally single-user devices with stable fingerprints, which is why you see that advice so often. It’s boring, but boring is usually what survives.
One more thing people ignore: content and behavior signals matter more than hardware. If channels are associated and one gets strikes, policy issues, reused content flags, misleading metadata, spammy behavior, the others can be reviewed manually or automatically. That’s when entire “networks” disappear overnight.
So the takeaway
If there is no prior enforcement history, you usually don’t need extreme setups, just clean separation and normal behavior.
If there is prior enforcement history, technical isolation alone is not enough. Ownership, AdSense structure and compliance become critical.
And proxies/RDPs are not some magic shield, in many cases they actually lower trust instead of increasing it.
No judgment here, just sharing how YouTube actually behaves in the real world. Plenty of channels have died because people focused on tools instead of policies. Old lesson, still valid.
