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Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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Re: Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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Post by da_n »

Tangentially related, my experience with the YouTube/Google plus social network merge has been pretty awful. I opted-out initially to integrate with Google plus, I couldn't have cared less so I just stuck with my original username/account. It seems even though I opted out, Google created a Google plus YouTube profile for me anyway and now chooses to nag me about it every time I go there. I have to pick every time I go to YouTube which 'profile' I want to use (defaulted to Google plus social network) even though I never wanted this new profile, and I have a big banner telling me I am using YouTube as profile 'x' permanently stuck at the top just to rub it in.

This annoyed me enough that a couple of weeks ago I gave up and tried to integrate it into their social network so I could just have 1 profile. Now it appears I no longer have the option to merge my original profile into Google plus, it just isn't there on the account settings. Because I made one decision to opt-out of their social network it seems I will permanently have 2 profiles from this time forward, the Google plus one has none of my history, subscriptions, likes etc it is a completely useless account.

Re: Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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Post by hobs »

doe88 wrote: post #8

That way Google+ can claim 1 billion active users and say their service is a huge success, even surpassing their nemesis Facebook.

Don't forget the likely increased revenue tying more accounts to real names to sell impressions that are more targeted. It's all about the money.

Re: Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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Post by Larrikin »

VikingCoder wrote: post #7

Because YouTube comments were completely useless, and now the company is trying to make them useful / interesting. If I go to a viral video, and I see comments on it from people I actually KNOW, I personally think that would be really cool. That was completely impossible, the old way.

If I'm not talking about it to my friend already I find that comment just as useful or important as a random stranger.

Re: Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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Post by mlyang »

This isn't just to make commenting more social (i.e. pushing friends comments to the top)-- I imagine it's also largely to hold more people accountable for their comments (w/ their reputation) so that there aren't as many nonsense/flame/bigoted comments like there always have been on Youtube, and in turn get higher quality comments (e.g. Quora vs. Yahoo answers analogy)

Re: Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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Post by eliasmacpherson »

spectrum wrote: post #9
jrs99 wrote: post #4

i hate going to youtube and realizing that i'm signed in and my history is being saved.

That's why I use different browsers. Chromium logged in with my Google accounts, Firefox for everything else.

I go one step further, and put chromium in incognito while logging in to google services. The only problem is clicking youtube links from gmail/gtalk - I have to remember to paste them in to firefox.

Re: Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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Post by this_user »

da_n wrote: post #11

Tangentially related, my experience with the YouTube/Google plus social network merge has been pretty awful. I opted-out initially to integrate with Google plus, I couldn't have cared less so I just stuck with my original username/account. It seems even though I opted out, Google created a Google plus YouTube profile for me anyway and now chooses to nag me about it every time I go there. I have to pick every time I g…

I have a Google account but without G+ and a YT account that was linked to the Google account. The solution for getting rid of the repeated popups asking you to turn your YT account into a G+ account seems to be to delete your YT channel. That way you will only be logged in with your normal Google account. Of course, you still won't be able to comment (or operate a channel), but at least the popup seems to be gone.

Re: Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

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Post by sker »

I've pretty much given up. Google has deleted my playlists and favorites countless times. Every time they try to integrate YouTube with one of their services/account management, I end up losing everything.

My only consolation is that Google+ is accumulating a lot of vitriol and hate across the web. It's shaping up to be the most hated "social" product in the entire Internet.

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