While it may be a stretch to call YouTube/Google complicit (since they probably aren’t actively giving these scammers a pass), they certainly can be accused of negligence. But then, like with any dinosaur before them, the main problem is that they’ve simply become too big to care. Sooner or latyer they’ll be done in by something that becomes too big to ignore but can’t be stopped anymore.
@mcrio has a point though — is it reasonable to expect Google e.a. to keep us safe from what lurks in the unregulated waters of crypto? We can certainly pressure them to do their part, but in a decentralised system the end responsibility will mostly lie with he end user.
And as any person with IT support experience can tell you: nothing is foolproof to a determined fool. For some people, no amount of warnings, blocks, checks and failsafes will ever be enough to protect them from themselves.
Go into crypto with the mindset of an explorer (i.e. leave nothing to chance), not a consumer. It’ll become more consumer-friendly over the years, but for now we’re still at the stage where anyone who doesn’t do their due diligence is basically a stereotypical tourist, marching all fat and happy into the T-rex enclosure of Jurassic Park just before the storm hits.
Here be dragons 