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

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Post by criley2 »

ToastyMallows wrote: post #46
sker wrote: post #20

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.

I've never had this happen and I've had a YouTube account for a while. This honestly sounds like a bug of some sort. Have you found other people experiencing this?

Yep, totally happened to me. Lost 100+ subscriptions. Had to find and re-add everything I follow by hand.

Also, had a fun bug recently with the G+ Page/Profile bullshit where I deleted my Youtube Channel account so it would stop asking about G+ integration at the cost of no longer being able to post videos or comments. (However, jokes on me, as they just forcibly integrated my G+ with Youtube ONE WEEK after I explicitly deleted my Channel account to prevent exactly that from happening. Thanks, Google.) It didn't erase all of my subscriptions, but it made them all nonfunctional. My feed was completely empty despite the channels having many new videos, so I had to drop and re-add all of my subs to fix the feed.

I take solace in the fact that this most recent forced integration and re-purposing of G+ posts has been an unmitigated disaster.

It's very entertaining to see videos a few years old just FULL of G+ Posts, not Youtube Comments, from people who don't even realize those posts were public years ago. And now they're getting tons of attention of G+ posts through the Youtube website from mean and vicious Youtube commenters.

It's basically the exact opposite of what Google used to stand for online, with regards to privacy, safety and respect for users.

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

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Post by X4 »

unhappyhippie wrote: post #74
ToastyMallows wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never had this happen and I've had a YouTube account for a while. This honestly sounds like a bug of some sort. Have you found other people experiencing this?

I was hesitant to share this video[1] on HN, but I came upon this in my research when the same thing happened to me. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccxiwu4MaJs Edit: NSFW- language/curse words.

Same here, I declined and got "virtually killed", no more playlist etc. Another short story. helped someone unknown become really famous. Got a DMCA takedown notice on all my videos, that's the "thank you". The best part is that the file I uploaded had no license, nothing. As said that artist was completely unknown. I thought about fighting back, then just said.. f* off.. I'll wipe and shut this account down. Not worth it.. She had barely 100visitors or less in total for years, had to delete her vids with some hundred million visits..

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

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Post by myko »

homosaur wrote: post #57
myko wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vimeo is nice on the web, but they're garbage at mobile. YouTube has an excellent mobile app on both major mobile platforms and is supported on popular TV additions like AppleTV/Chromecast. Vimeo really needs to step up their mobile game.

This used to be true, but what issues are you having with mobile? Since Android support was added, I've had few issues with it.

Really? In my opinion the Vimeo Android app is abysmal. The design isn't responsive at all, it looks third party and unprofessional. To be fair, it's much better on iOS - but still outclassed by YouTube.

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

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Post by gk1 »

dspillett wrote: post #87
kdot wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate Google+, I'm sending back my Nexus 5, it's useless without Google+.

If you bought an expensive smartphone-cum-tablet just for that one app, then you might want to reconsider your purchase decision making process!

I think you misunderstood. They didn't buy it _for_ Google+, they're suggesting that without a Google+ account the experience on a Nexus 5 is so bad that they wish they hadn't bought it.

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

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Post by silverbax88 »

jonknee wrote: post #84

Considering that it was nearly impossible to make YouTube's commenting system worse, I'm interested to see if the G+ integration improves things. For whatever reason YouTube has forever had the lowest quality comments of any site I can think of.

And now they will have the lowest quantity as well.

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

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Post by Shooti »

ringdabell wrote: post #63

What happened to "don't be evil"? The criticism is a bit thick, but the prompts to join G+ are increasingly manipulative and gimmicky, designed almost entirely to _trick_ the user to into signing up + spamming their gmail contacts. A requirement to have G+ account to make youtube comments is just one part of a greater trend that includes: 1. Requiring a G+ account to review Android apps in the Play store 2. Cunningly…

There's no post API and all sharing is done manually so spamming anyone with G+ is impossible unless you actively use it.

I think what they're effectively trying to do boils down into unifying the Google account: instead of every Google product maintaining its own divorced account/sharing infrastructure they're effectively retconning all of their products so they're now all based off one source, the Google+ Profile. This allows any change they make to the underlying G+ architecture to instantly propagate across all their products, as well as much more effective user data collection.

The problem is while the setup has plenty of benefit to Google, they've barely explained the benefit to the user.

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

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Post by fiatjaf »

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…

This is happening with me and is making me sad. Help!

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

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Post by slvrspoon »

Larry Page and board's extreme fear of facebook has caused them to turn on their own don't be evil slogan and believe in their own BS. G+ is "strategic" to Goog? in what way shape or form does all this crappy enforced connectivity benefit me. As long as maps on my phone knows my location, i'm good.
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