 Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. Today's video, I wanted to talk to you all about keeping your channels safe. I don't know how many people on this channel have their own YouTube channels, but I wanted to talk about safety because sometimes there comes periods where hackers like to hack into channels and it's super scary and coming up this November is going to be my fifth year on YouTube and I know how hard you all and myself puts into their videos and editing and just growing online. So I came across this little tool to help you. I think the guy that I learned this from is named Rob. I will put his channel link down below. He's in the TubeBuddy community. I don't know a lot of those people but I just wanted to thank him. So if you're coming across this video, check out his channel because he has a lot of other different channel tips, tricks, all of that stuff. This is not sponsored, not affiliated, collaborative at all. I paid for this product, everything like that. Before we get into the actual tool that I'm gonna talk to you guys about, I also wanted to mention a lot of people use like VPN services. Like there's NordVPN. There's like a lot of them that like sponsor YouTubers and honestly those are great tools but if you don't wanna like spend the money like monthly or yearly, this tool will help protect your channel and you'll only have to pay once. So yeah, let's get on into the little secret that I wanted to share with you guys. And it is called the Google Titan Security Key and there's different variations of this. Like you can get the like USB and you can get the Bluetooth separate. I ended up getting the pack. I don't know exactly what this is called but I got the two in one basically because the Bluetooth key helps protect your channel like on your phone and stuff which I think is very beneficial because I only really watch YouTube on my phone. I don't watch it on a computer. I don't watch it on the TV. I sometimes watch it on my iPad but still just having a Google key in both forms is really helpful. So opening this on up, this is what the little packaging looks like. It comes with this little get started booklet and honestly it's so easy to set up. I was actually kind of confused in the beginning but all you're gonna do is like go to the website it tells you to go to and then basically you're just gonna register your key. Then it just comes with the security and warranty guide for the key. All packages come with this type of stuff. And then here they are all in their pride and glory. The Bluetooth key actually needs to charge. So it comes with the USB charging port converter and the cord. So that's what it looks like. Oh, it's popping out. Oops. And then here are the two keys. The one that has the gold is the one that you plug into the computer and the little key fob looking one is the Bluetooth. Again, these are very simple to use. At first I was kind of confused but overall I highly recommend them. So the one that you plug into the computer you actually have to have your physical like thumbprint when you plug it into the computer to let them know it's you or I don't know maybe it's just making sure it's a human there. I don't really know the exact details but this is a really, really good tool to help protect your YouTube channel without having like monthly fees for something without having to go through other different steps because the two factor authentication process people can still like hack into that apparently which I thought was crazy because I don't know I don't know why anyone would want to hack someone's channel. I mean maybe for the subscribers but honestly I think it's really stupid but the thing to note with this you must have the key to get into your YouTube channel on a different device. So let's say I got the iPhone 11 Max Pro or like the new iPhone 12 I would need this the physical keys to get into my YouTube channel. Let's say I got the new MacBook I would need the key to plug in to let them know that it's me and I know that if you lose the keys it's a process to get your channel back and like to get everything like where it needs to be again because this is like the almighty it's kind of like the key to your car in a sense even though someone can still break into your car and steal it. I don't know that was probably a bad example but it's like one of those things where you don't want to lose this so if you are prone to losing things and you misplace a lot of things I don't recommend this for you I would probably recommend you know like the VPN services because that's another way to protect your channel without having to worry about misplacing anything. So this is definitely something that I recommend and it is something that I wish I knew existed sooner and I'm glad I have it now considering how much my channel has grown in the past few months I will have that product linked down below if you want to check it out get your hands on it quick minor story time because I know this video is kind of short and sweet but my Instagram almost got hacked and I know the feeling so that's why I wanted to take action when I heard that YouTube channels were getting hacked because I was so scared this one time I was trying to get on my Instagram it came up with those like notifications like can't load feed or you know your password is incorrect and I'm like wait what's going on? So I had a minor flip out and I was using a third party application for my Instagram at the time and I was really nervous I'm like oh my gosh what's going on and I logged on on my computer and luckily I changed the password and everything so I saved my own Instagram account I was so livid at that point I don't know if they make Titan keys or like other keys for other social media sites I think they do but I'm not quite sure I don't think Instagram has one because I actually looked into that anyway yeah the whole Instagram thing was super scary but I ended up getting my account back because I was logged in on my desktop computer and for some reason they hadn't like changed the password so I stayed safe with that and make sure you always have the two factor authentication on because you never know and I know it's not the end all be all when it comes to protecting your devices and your accounts or whatever but it is a second layer of protection so my Instagram obviously has the two factor authentication and almost I think all my accounts do but anyway let me know if you enjoyed this video question of the day has any of your accounts ever been hacked? I would love to know I have known people in the past to get their accounts hacked and it's super scary and I wouldn't like wish that on anyone give this video a thumbs up I love just chatting with you and sharing things that I see have value so yeah don't forget to subscribe and I'll see you guys in my next video bye