pretty sure that's what YouTube's founder was alluding to recently:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/8/5080630/youtube-co-founder...
they should've just listened to him
Using Google without a Google+ profile
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Re: Using Google without a Google+ profile
#152This is confusing to me. What IS a "Google Account"? Is it my gmail? That makes no sense to me, it's an email service. A "Google Account" sounds like I work at Google. If you were to tell me I had a "Google Account", I would assume it's Google+. Google messed up when it tried to make some master account with Google+. Maybe everything could be incorporated into one account, but the way they've done it is one of the mo…
I find it incredibly convenient not to have to log into drive, gmail, maps, youtube, etc. separately. They all work seamlessly together, and I know I sound like a shill for saying so, but I've had nothing but positive experiences with it.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only social network from Google that had a chance... before they killed it off.
Google Reader never had many users. Feedly claims to have captured 80% of the Reader userbase when it shut down, and they have 15 million users. That is incredibly small by the standards of social networks, much smaller than even the pessimistic active-user estimates for G+.
I always wonder what would be the active-user count for G++ without YouTube (i.e. every logged in Google user visiting a YouTube page is marked as an active G+ user if she scrolls down the page once).
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#154I find it incredibly amusing and also very frustrating that all the top comments to this article are simply G+ re-shares that add absolutely no value to the comments section and simply more garbage the reader has to sift through in order to view legit comments. >>"Google has been doing some rethinking" thanks I already read that >>"#googleplusupdate #youtube " thank you that was valuable >>[another summary of the art…
> People are replying to users but the reply username doesn't match the display username. To be fair, Twitter suffers from this too.
Maybe that's part of the reason I can never figure out what's going on when I follow someone's link to a conversation on Twitter.
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#155They mean "Using Google with a Google account but without a Google+ profile", not "Using Google without a Google account". Google pushes really hard for people to be logged into Google. Google search results pages have a whiny banner ad if you don't log into Google. (And it won't go away if you have their cookies blocked.) Incidentally, Android phones work fine with no Google account. If you buy the phone new and unl…
It's ironic that one of the features which originally motivated my switch to Google was the way they didn't seem to care whether I got an account or not. I've almost completely stopped using any of their services now that they're so pushy about getting you to log in.
This includes Android phones: I don't know why people claim that they can't be used without a Google account, because I'm on my second, I've never put any Google account credentials into either one, and they've worked just fine. Can't use the app store, but I don't care about that anyway.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is outing someone against their will and possibly ruining their life merely "somewhat dickish"? http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-outed-me/ I'm not saying that annoying people by forcing G+/YT integration is evil. But presuming that an annoyance to you is an annoyance to all is faulty.
No. It's not google's fault people are bigots.
This is like saying "it's not my fault that trains have a lot of mass and kinetic energy", after you are warned against pushing people in front of them and do it anyway.
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#157"When we launched Google+, we set out to help people discover, share and connect across Google like they do in real life. "
Why can't they for once be honest and say something like: "We wanted to get on the social network train, it did not work out".
Just without these corporate lies about "connecting people"
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#158I stopped commenting/voting on YouTube since the mandatory G+ thing. I hope Google think it twice before playing that hard again.
Re: Using Google without a Google+ profile
#159I find it incredibly amusing and also very frustrating that all the top comments to this article are simply G+ re-shares that add absolutely no value to the comments section and simply more garbage the reader has to sift through in order to view legit comments. >>"Google has been doing some rethinking" thanks I already read that >>"#googleplusupdate #youtube " thank you that was valuable >>[another summary of the art…
You forgot to mention how the comment system bubbles up the most controversial and divisive comments, giving them the spotlight while productive conversations get lost in the noise.
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#160Does this mean privacy conscious people will be able to vote in the Android store?