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

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Post by marianov »

JohnDoe365 wrote: post #183
forgottenpaswrd wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I Agree. I miss the time when I could control what I search and find anything in any part of the world in any language. Now they believe that because I live in Spain I have to speak Spanish, or be interested first in Spanish stupid things, or be only interested on the topics I searched in the past. Now while using gmail I search with Bing, so it does not mess anything.

Came here to second that. I live in Austria. Google pretends that all I am interesteed in has to be in the German language, somewhere nearby where I live and all sort of assumptions. Recently the Internet has become a small world for me. Going to google.com helps somewhat

http://www.google.com/ncr (no country redirect). Gets saved in a cookie. No more local search. That's in case you get redirected to google.at or the like.

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

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Post by geuis »

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.

Thanks for sharing that. Pretty stark example of how Google is screwing up YouTube.

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

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Post by dublinben »

jannotti wrote: post #44
andor wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. Or really creepy. a- Imagine you're going to a real world bookstore. You look at the back cover of a few books and all the reviews are by your Google+ "friends". Customized for you to increase the chances you're buying it. (If ads are going everywhere and you try to ignore them, what will be l…

a - That would be awesome. b - That would be awesome (since I assume you mean the beter direct analogy, which would be that any of my Facebook friend's statements about being there are visible. Now I know who to chat with about restaurants, sights, etc.) c - Can you say strawman? Making up a dystopian future and placing it alongside something you don't like doesn't make the thing you don't like any more like it. Yout…

C - This is more or less already the case in South Korea. You can't really use the Internet without a national ID card.

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

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Post by 6d0debc071 »

hahainternet wrote: post #71
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…

> You know G+ is an abysmal failure when the Page & Co has to force it on users of google's other services. C'mon bro, what gives? They literally have been explaining this for nearly a year. There's no such thing as a G+ account and a 'Google Account'. They are the same things. I think if anything what this has proven is that you cannot rely on your customers to read the slightest thing from you, but if you change ho…

> They literally have been explaining this for nearly a year. There's no such thing as a G+ account and a 'Google Account'. They are the same things.

Now, yes, and some people don't like that. Of course it's 'free' for whatever that's worth - and you can do whatever you want. Just don't expect that people are going to be thrilled. Free doesn't buy you free approval.

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Post by abraham »

naterator wrote: post #139
mcphilip wrote: post #109

The longer I use youtube while signed in, the more useless it becomes to me. I have a wide range of interests. If I'm watching the Dead Skeletons - Dead Mantra music video, it's not helpful to have 5 Starcraft 2 VODs in the recommended video list (i.e. I enjoy watching professional Starcraft 2). I'd much prefer recommendations similar to the Dead Skeletons. I've found no way to turn off this recommendation bubble and…

This is the thing that bothers/scares me the most about this balkanization of the internet that's happening. You end up getting forced into bubbles that someone else has decided you belong in. And if you don't know it's happening, you can't even try to stop it. For me, I have not found utility in the things that have been selected for me, so most of these services are becoming useless. All those "smartest guys in the…

> You end up getting forced into bubbles that someone else has decided you belong in.

You are not forced into anything, if you don't want to be put into "bubbles" use other services.

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

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Post by visualphoenix »

Larry Page has his office in the G+ building, and has said a number of times he is committed to seeing G+ be a success.

http://www.virante.org/blog/2013/04/23/is-google-still-the-f...

There is a lot of hate for G+ and/or the service unification stuff... I personally dislike it - but I don't think it's going away anytime soon.

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

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Post by adrianmalacoda »

StandardFuture wrote: post #103

Uh ... these guys have created their own response to the changes on YouTube lol: http://www.vus.io

What exactly is that, though? None of the social links in the bottom right corner go anywhere. The only thing on that page is an email submission form.

The wording leads one to conclude that it must be some alternative to YouTube, but I don't see anything else on that site.

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

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Post by Pxtl »

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…

... yeah, I guess the lesson for Google to learn is to just rip off the bandage and accept the pain, because all their "courtesy" has done is prolong things.

"We're migrating to google accounts. Your YouTube account is disabled until you connect it to a google accounts and then we're going to migrate over and destroy your YouTube account. You can have more than one google account if you really want to keep your YouTube stuff disconnected from your main Google Account. Here's how to make that second Google Account and how to manage it".

Boom, done. Bolt a way to have a "casual social-networking alias" for public stuff you don't want publicly linked to your Google account so you can pseudonymously comment on YouTube and Play Store and whatever.

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Post by Angostura »

OoTheNigerian wrote: post #81

Although it may not be a popular opinion, here is the reason: there is only one Google (at least for social stuff) and one login system now. Google plus is the "Google account" you need to use any of their social services. I am frankly surprised that they allowed the login of their acquisitions to stay fragmented for such a long time.

> Google plus is the "Google account" you need to use any of their social services.

Unfortunately the mistake they are making is in defining every service as a 'social' service.

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Post by guybrushT »

_wp3r wrote: post #115
ancarda wrote: post #55

A few weeks ago, YouTube started automatically signing me into my Google+ account (which I was forced into getting) rather than my YouTube account -- which has years of favorites and other content. I'm getting sick of it. I only signed up to Google+ because my friend wanted to use Hangouts. Now it's screwed up my YouTube channel and I can't revert it. The only reason I post on YouTube is to share small clips with peo…

You can revert the change. In the settings menu.

Correct. I had this issue a few weeks ago, and managed to undo this in settings.
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