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Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL

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Re: Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL

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Post by danellis »

simoneau wrote: post #53
Ensorceled wrote: post #38

Why I won't get a Custom URL: > Many people have the same name. Add a few extra letters or numbers to this URL to get one that is unique for you. Why would I want yet another "MyName " identifier? How does that help friends and family remember or identify me? What purpose does it serve? I'm yet another person with a nickname that identifies me all over and has for years, I too own the domain. But Google+ keeps insist…

Even though I prefer +simoneau, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=simoneau , I had come around to living with +MatthewSimoneau (if only to keep someone else from getting it). When it required me to add some trailing garbage after my name though, I also canceled the process.

How are they deciding who has to have a suffix, then, if there's no +MatthewSimoneau already? I got +DanEllis no problem.

Re: Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL

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Post by sugarenia »

archagon wrote: post #101

At this point, I'm not even sure how my identity is split up on Google's servers between my original Google account, my Google Plus account, and my legacy YouTube account. Sometimes I feel like I'm logged into three different things at once. And now I can't even use my original username as my Google Plus URL? Does that mean that my legacy YouTube account is no longer active? Or has it been merged with my Google Plus…

Exactly my thoughts. The experience is very jarring, plus the whole "use your real name in YouTube" thing that Google has got going on is annoying at best.

Re: Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL

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Post by pkrumins »

You all already have a nice looking google+ url, you just don't know about it. It's:

    http://profiles.google.com/first_part_of_your_gmail_email
For example, my email is peteris.krumins@gmail.com, and my google+ url is:

    http://profiles.google.com/peteris.krumins

.

Re: Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL

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Post by a3_nm »

At least the TOS are honest and transparent. Even if Google did not warn specifically that they can kick people out or start asking for money, they would of course be free to do so. So, is it worse if Google reminds you that you have no guarantees whatsoever? ...

Re: Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL

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Post by ajslater »

dsr_ wrote: post #73
davidjgraph wrote: post #17

Here's how it works. The techies create something. The legals come along and say, OK, to release that in the wild it needs some T&Cs that cover our arses for everything and then some, because people keep sueing us. In practice, would Google ever dare invoke this on a large scale? No, you know that. Yes, there should be some transparent process that is undertaken if yours were revoked, but Google only like stuff that…

Me in 1993: Yeah, but seriously, nobody is going to start charging for domain names. Writing a hundred bytes in your named.conf? What would you charge, ten cents? Doesn't make sense. And everybody swaps secondary service with everybody else, and your upstream includes it at no extra charge.

1993. I considered registering cocacola.com, sex.com, shell.com, etc. etc. Spent the money on consumables instead.

There are few moments I remember as clearly as making that decision.

Re: Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL

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Post by jmduke »

Hellenion wrote: post #90
dsr_ wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Me in 1993: Yeah, but seriously, nobody is going to start charging for domain names. Writing a hundred bytes in your named.conf? What would you charge, ten cents? Doesn't make sense. And everybody swaps secondary service with everybody else, and your upstream includes it at no extra charge.

Where can I read more about this seemingly magical era? I'm so young that it sounds like a faerietale.

It's hardly a canonical source, but very much on the 'seemingly magical' side of things -- there's a Twitter account devoted to crawling old boards and pages and tweeting interesting snippets.

https://twitter.com/wwwtxt

Incredibly wonderful -- and very surreal. It's bizarre to think that only twenty years ago, the Internet was an entirely different culture.

Re: Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL

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Post by gohrt »

pkrumins wrote: post #133

You all already have a nice looking google+ url, you just don't know about it. It's: http://profiles.google.com/first_part_of_your_gmail_email For example, my email is peteris.krumins@gmail.com, and my google+ url is: http://profiles.google.com/peteris.krumins .

Does everyone have that, or only people who created Google Profiles before Plus replaced them?

Re: Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL

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Post by lyricalpolymath »

We hacked this nonsense by creating a simple redirect on our website: http://eyevel.com/G+ ;) You can too! It's a simple htaccess line or a router on your app

put this into the .htaccess of your host and change where appropriate (yourdomain, extension and G+ long userID)

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourDomain\.com$ [OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.yourDomain\.com$

RewriteRule ^B\@G\+$ "https\:\/\/plus\.google\.com\/103815970554408703928\/posts" [R=301,L]

Re: Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL

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Post by officialjunk »

ajslater wrote: post #135
dsr_ wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Me in 1993: Yeah, but seriously, nobody is going to start charging for domain names. Writing a hundred bytes in your named.conf? What would you charge, ten cents? Doesn't make sense. And everybody swaps secondary service with everybody else, and your upstream includes it at no extra charge.

1993. I considered registering cocacola.com, sex.com, shell.com, etc. etc. Spent the money on consumables instead. There are few moments I remember as clearly as making that decision.

You decided to spend money instead of free domains? ;)

Re: Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL

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Post by officialjunk »

wyclif wrote: post #118
louthy wrote: post #61

The reason I won't get a custom URL is because after getting the "Click here to get your custom URL" email, I was informed I had to give them my mobile number before this process was achievable. It seems Google is on an absolute mission to get my mobile number, they've been relentlessly hinting that it's essential that I give it to them for what feels like forever. No Google, you cannot have it. Please, stop asking.

Note that you don't have to give Google your mobile number. You can use a Google Voice number.

But to create a google voice number, you provide your phone number...
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