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Kind of unrelated question: Do you guys see comments on YouTube videos or it is just me? I don't see anything.
Even more unrelated: NoScript users who allow apis.google.com might want to add an Adblock Plus 'Ad Blocking Rule' ||apis.google.com/js/plusone.js to prevent spying via G+ buttons.
What is the frequency with which these prompts to connect show up? I use youtube daily, G+ not at all and I've only seen them twice. These instances were at least a few months apart. In both cases, I opted out of connecting my profiles and nothing has happened since. Are some people getting these prompts more often? Why? Maybe someone on the G+ team can explain this. without deleting my entire G+ account and profile…
Since YT comments are now G+ comments, I believe it now shows up every time you try to interact with anything, such as like/favourite/comment etc.
I turned my YT account into a G+ page when the option became available as a way to get rid of the prompts without using my real name on YT.
I think anonymity on the internet is a great thing. It's a place where you can socialize and share ideas with strangers without having to give them your name/address/home phone #. You can even start honest, more controversial discussions and do some high-level reasoning that you couldn't necessarily achieve with close friends. If Google won't allow that on their services anymore, I pray everyone leaves them & moves t…
The easiest way to solve this is to get rid of your G+ profile.
You cant . That's the problem. You automatically get that profile by having a gmail account. They're trying to force you to use that profile for YouTube as well. Google has these incredibly valuable products and that work great separately but they're trying to mash everything together.
And as a webmail service, it's still pretty good. But I'm uncomfortable by all this stuff I've now been involuntarily opted-in to as a result of opening a Gmail account. And as these things go, having accumulated several years of use of it, it's now going to be some hassle to move away from it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Or if you truly want to be horrified, make an ad on Craigslist pretending to be a woman. You will get pictures of penises." This might initially seem like a silly question, but as someone who wants to understand the perspectives of both sexes I wonder: Why can this behaviour generally be observed only in male to female exchanges but not the reverse?
Women tend not to have penises.
So what is the next coup? Linking all the comments from the past that you wrote when you were thinking it was pseudonymous to your real name? My only recommendation: Get out of such services as fast as possible.
What is the frequency with which these prompts to connect show up? I use youtube daily, G+ not at all and I've only seen them twice. These instances were at least a few months apart. In both cases, I opted out of connecting my profiles and nothing has happened since. Are some people getting these prompts more often? Why? Maybe someone on the G+ team can explain this. without deleting my entire G+ account and profile…
The prompt used to show up everytime you log in. If you use multiple computers, an authenticator or multiple accounts, that is quite frequently. Since YT comments are now G+ comments, I believe it now shows up every time you try to interact with anything, such as like/favourite/comment etc. I turned my YT account into a G+ page when the option became available as a way to get rid of the prompts without using my real…
Kind of unrelated question: Do you guys see comments on YouTube videos or it is just me? I don't see anything.
Maybe you're blocking apis.google.com or plus.googleapis.com? Even more unrelated: NoScript users who allow apis.google.com might want to add an Adblock Plus 'Ad Blocking Rule' ||apis.google.com/js/plusone.js to prevent spying via G+ buttons.
Thanks anyway!
The easiest way to solve this is to get rid of your G+ profile.
You cant . That's the problem. You automatically get that profile by having a gmail account. They're trying to force you to use that profile for YouTube as well. Google has these incredibly valuable products and that work great separately but they're trying to mash everything together.
I think anonymity on the internet is a great thing. It's a place where you can socialize and share ideas with strangers without having to give them your name/address/home phone #. You can even start honest, more controversial discussions and do some high-level reasoning that you couldn't necessarily achieve with close friends. If Google won't allow that on their services anymore, I pray everyone leaves them & moves t…
This move, though short sighted and ill advised, is precisely to combat the cluster fuck that is YouTube comments powered by anonymity.
I'm not sure what the solution is, but one look at the quality of anonymous unmodderated comments calls for one.