Dear Googles: Stop asking
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Dear Googles: Stop asking
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Re: Dear Googles: Stop asking
#2No means no. They really ought to figure that out by now.
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#3Like youtube, they asked you to make you feel like you had a choice. (i may be wrong)
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#4Google has become this unwieldily beast that doesn't care how frustrated its users become, because it knows not enough of them will leave to have even the slightest dent in their revenue.
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#5It blows my mind how badly Google sucks at "social networks."
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#6Google has become this unwieldily beast that doesn't care how frustrated its users become, because it knows not enough of them will leave to have even the slightest dent in their revenue.
In the case of YouTube, I agree. What good alternatives are out there that have even half the content that YouTube has?
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#7This.
And stop asking if I want to download the youtube app every time I go to youtube.com in mobile safari (It is the pop-up banner of this generation.) That goes for all you clever scripting savvy marketers, I fucking despise you.
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#8Its really annoying since you know its a script and it can just keep asking you again and again. Sometimes it asks me my cell number while trying to check my email (even on my paid google apps account!)
Facebook has taken an interesting more sneaky turn recently with their messenger app. Since now they can collect phone numbers without explicitly asking for them.
Once it's given to them just once.. Its with them forever.
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#9Google has become this unwieldily beast that doesn't care how frustrated its users become, because it knows not enough of them will leave to have even the slightest dent in their revenue.
In the case of YouTube, I agree. What good alternatives are out there that have even half the content that YouTube has?
That was my issue. G+ isn't much of a hassel to me as I avoid it but its practically impossible to stop using youtube. From the another thread here are two semi-solutions for now: http://fixyt.com/ and http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta,
Never really thought about it before but Google definitely has the video market locked. Vimeo, dailymotion, liveleak, et al don't even come close in terms of content.
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#10I was all enthusiastic about G+ for about 5 minutes - until they wouldn't allow my wife to sign up without giving them her phone number, and proving that it was hers by accepting a call from them. Just who the fuck do they think they are??
There is no way I could suggest my friends and family sign up to such an intrusive service, so I quickly deleted my own account.
It's an absolutely stunning achievement to create a web-site that's even more offensively intrusive than Facebook. I hope Google are proud.