YouTube redirect loop when creating a channel


If you have new users (that’s right—new) trying to create a new YouTube channel and then running into errors…

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… like this…

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… or like this.

Lots of people have run into this issue, and there many proposed guesses (but no consensus) as to what’s the issue and what’s the fix:
My Channel and Create Channel are stuck in Infinite Redirect Loop!
Youtube Login Redirect Loop Error
Fix a “redirect loop” on youtube?

I can’t say the following procedure will always fix the problem, but the one time I ran into this issue, this was the fix that worked.

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Click on your profile picture on the top-right, then click the gear icon to go to YouTube settings.

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Then, click on Advanced.

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Then click Delete channel.

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Authenticate.

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Check I understand that the following will be permanently deleted and can’t be restored and then click Delete channel.

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Confirm you want to delete the channel by clicking Delete channel.

Keep in mind once you delete a YouTube channel, Google won’t let you delete another one for a long while (there doesn’t seem to be an agreed-upon amount of time before you can delete again—I’ve read anywhere between a week and a month), so choose your YouTube channel name wisely!


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