Google is simply doing the noble thing. It is fucking-up so that it can pave the way for a better company to dominate. For a while. This is the way of Silicon Valley. Amirite Vic G.?
Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me
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Re: Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me
#22I think Google is choosing a particularly terrible point to start alienating users of YouTube. It seems like everywhere I go online these days, the YouTube hatred is universal. It's regarded as uncool, boring, obnoxious, and just generally yesterday's news. This is merely an observation, however a few years ago I rarely saw the kind of negative sentiment toward YouTube that is now very common. If I were a betting per…
The bandwidth issue is a small obstacle for a potential competitor (solvable by venture capital) relative to the issue of video copyrights and offensive content moderation.
in the US, yeah.
Re: Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me
#23I 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 to services that understand this. The market giants think they can bully us into behaving the way they want us to rather than realizing that they are privileged by having our business. I would recommend giving business to alternative sites as much as possible to break internet monopolies that are setting the stage for these forceful policies.
Re: Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me
#24What 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
I don't use G+/FB but even if I did, I have a hard time understanding this mentality. I wouldn't think twice about deleting any of social media profiles and even in places like HN where it's not possible to delete profiles, I just throwaway old profiles and start from scratch. Maybe I'm just paranoid but the last thing I want are my random musings being psychoanalyzed by nutters on the internet.
And as far as Gmail goes, you should be backing it up offline so that you can take your data and leave any time you want. This literally takes only 3 minutes to setup if you already use Thunderbird.
Re: Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me
#25The easiest way to solve this is to get rid of your G+ profile.
Re: Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Assuming your question was serious: Because she displays a very minor amount of cleavage in the picture, with a pleasant smile. In other words, her picture is fun and completely unobjectionable. Unfortunately, if that picture is shown outside of her private context it's also liable to generate hordes of crude come-ons from lonely men who see it while browsing Youtube. This is different from a facebook profile picture…
"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.
Re: Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me
#27Also, people are different in different situations. People are different on youtube than they are on tumblr than they are on pinterest than they are on twitter than they are with their family than they are at the DMV than they are at a night club than they are ....
People aren't a personality attached to a name they're who they want to be at any given time and personalities change.
This kind of forced identity is not only dangerous for at risk individuals but is plainly anti-social and anti-human-behavior.
Re: Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me
#28I think Google is choosing a particularly terrible point to start alienating users of YouTube. It seems like everywhere I go online these days, the YouTube hatred is universal. It's regarded as uncool, boring, obnoxious, and just generally yesterday's news. This is merely an observation, however a few years ago I rarely saw the kind of negative sentiment toward YouTube that is now very common. If I were a betting per…
The bandwidth issue is a small obstacle for a potential competitor (solvable by venture capital) relative to the issue of video copyrights and offensive content moderation.
I definitely agree on the copyrighted content problem.
The VC issue is interesting. It would probably cost... hundreds of millions of dollars in capital over a few years to compete with YouTube properly (requiring HD, long length video), given the time it will most likely take to get up to speed on revenues / build a functioning business model, and the speed at which adoption often happens these days with successful products (wake up tomorrow with 50 million users wanting to stream your brains out).
We live in the age of pervasive offensive Internet content. Reddit is half offensive content, and then there's Tumblr and Snapchat, which thrived partially due to 'offensive' content. I view that as a trivial problem.
Whatever replaces YouTube, will likely be built on the back of sensationalistic offensive content. Nothing sells like sex / sex appeal, and that will never change. Indeed, people get accustomed to it, and then it takes even more dramatic content to get that sensationalism buzz.
Re: Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me
#29The 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.
Re: Dear Googles: G+/YouTube Anschluss – you've done outed me
#30So 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.