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Google Is Dropping Its Google+ Requirement Across All Products Including YouTube
An anonymous reader writes: After years of plugging Google+ into all of its services, today Google announced that your Google+ profile will no longer be your identity in all its products. The company says it will take a few months for all the changes to happen, but the first product to be uncoupled will be YouTube. Bradley Horowitz, Google's vice president of streams, photos, and sharing, says the changes are a response to user feedback: "We've also heard that it doesn't make sense for your Google+ profile to be your identity in all the other Google products you use."
Who will I complain is evil and destroying the world, if they start doing things that aren't evil?
Horray!
I hadn't heard much of it lately.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Knowing Google, they will usually abort failed projects. They tried really hard with Google+ but it has failed almost as bad as windows phone so it's about time to abandon it.
All I can say is it is about fucking time. Now I can troll again without people knowing who I am!
Fixed.
So the argument all along has been
I don't want to have the same profile across all my google products but I want to login with the same profile across all the products
Which, to put it bluntly, is fucking retarded.
If you want different profiles, create different accounts. Your identity is your identity, its pretty stupid to use the same account across all the platforms but different names, the only person you're fooling is yourself, for everyone else we can still easily link your various google accounts to the same login, but hey, you go ahead and pretend because you can now use a different alias on youtube that no one can figure out who you are when you go trolling.
So big fucking woop, you don't have to give google the 3 lines it requires for a Google+ profile in one place ... now you're going to do it in EVERY place.
If you're one of the people who think this is good, you really are stupid and need to put your tin foil hat away. Its not even hiding you from anything.
Yes, this post is inflammatory, its supposed to be, its targeted at the trolls who think hiding behind their half assed pseudonym is clever even when logging in with the same email address/account everywhere.
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Great. Now put Latitude back in Maps where it belongs!
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One Facebook to rule them all. At least Google gave it a try. I guess the end Facebook's dominance will have to be a long, slow process of attrition like with MySpace. It has a critical mass of users that cannot be overcome with money or other Web presence, as proven by Google. It may also take the young generation growing through it - most people under 20 do not have much interest in Facebook at all. They have accounts of course, but very few are very active.
Better known as 318230.
While I'm guessing it wants just a Google account, and not specifically a gmail account, that's still not the same as a G+ account.
Bingo. YouTube is rife with trolls [1], and there is nothing channel owners can do to block them. You can "block" them... which means you can't see their messages, but they can still post to your channel. Or you can actively keep running up and down the comments and delete posts, which is like trying to piss on a forest fire in hopes of putting it out.
I'd like to see a responsibility system put in place. Something like Stackexchange where it is easy to have an account, but you have to earn privileges to post or comment which means a troll isn't going to bother taking the time to do that, only to get banned.
[1]: A few years ago, I remember a guy who had car destruction derbies on his property and showed basic mechanic stuff. He was the #1 Canadian YouTuber. Then the trolls managed to make up so much stuff and got his channel taken down because there was a boy running around sans shirt, so hundreds of sock puppets flagged his stuff as child pornography. YouTube is great if you are doing cat pictures or maybe cooing about the latest iPhone... but anything outside of that, the trolls will destroy someone.
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It's a Gmail account.
Thank-you.
One problem with Google+ in my opinion was that G+ would be like Facebook if Facebook had perfect information on every one of your habits/actions/locations. When you have to use it to sign in to everything, it approaches the creepy line that a lot of people have.
It's similar to how a lot of discussion forums, etc. encourage or force Facebook logins to post. You'd think that would keep people at bay, but all that vitriolic hatred you see on news forums, etc. is right there next to people's pictures and occupations -- "Joe User - 7th Grade Social Studies teacher at Somewhereville Middle School." I once thought, "No one could be that dumb, posting trash like that as a public figure with their real ID." Sure enough, go look for the person on LinkedIn, there he is with a matching picture, etc. People really have zero knowledge about how social media works, what the companies use the data for, or anything about online privacy.
How will my friends know what I'm listening to?!
/Oh right, I don't have any friends. So no problem!
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Presumably you'll still need a google+ id to log into google+
Better the freedom to troll than big brother monitoring every breath you take. But does Google really need G+ to track you? It is quite pervasive on the web and IDing a person is quite easy.
What were those folks thinking about privacy when they designed HTML pages to execute and load dynamic/static content from foreign websites? Isn't it time the user has control over whether foreign websites (like google analytics or addthis.com) runs on most of their webpages (foreign sites should be opt-out by default, not opt-in)? How come this type of issue is never discussed instead of the mindless SJW stuff that usually pops up?
It means that they no longer need to index and associate your use across platforms because they have already developed the capability to link you personally across all their different platforms through Super Cookies, Data Mining, etc. Google+ is now irrelevant and a good bone to throw to the privacy minding minions who will celebrate it as if it accomplished anything.
JP
AdBlock Plus and Disconnect do wonders for ending the ads in YouTube.
You can always install a Google-free version of Android.
I refused to comment on YouTube because of the whole G+ thing, now I can go back to commenting on the many interesting YouTube videos I see :)
Quite a while ago, Google made the onerous and 100% unnecessary requirement that reviews of Google Play store apps *required* a Google+ account. I very begrudgingly created a Google+ account which I have everything turned off on because I do like to review apps, but hate everything to do with social media garbage.
If they remove the Google+ requirement for Google Play app reviews, my Google+ account is gone. BTW, does this mean that the Google Play Games service doesn't need a Google+ account (unlikely I guess - I loathe that it defaults to sharing everything to the world about your gaming by default and I always have to turn off the options for each game)?
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I'd like to see a responsibility system put in place. Something like Stackexchange where it is easy to have an account, but you have to earn privileges to post or comment
According to this walkthrough of Stack Exchange, you first earn 10 by improving formatting or grammar in five posts. This gives "participate in meta", allowing you to ask for clarification of a site's scope, and "remove new user restrictions", allowing you to cite sources in questions and answers, provide screenshots in questions and answers if necessary, and answer protected questions. Then you earn 40 more by providing useful answers to a couple questions. This gives "comment everywhere".
In your vision of ResponsibleTube, how would a new user go about earning enough points to comment? Would initial reputation be based on an invite tree (like the field trials of Orkut, Gmail, and Google+), a valid enrollment in higher education (like the field trial of Facebook), a valid subscription to mobile phone service (like Yahoo! and current Gmail), or a months-long waitlist (like Google Contributor)?
Android Market in Android 2 required specifically a Gmail account and gave the "aeris@example.com does not use Gmail. Add Gmail to your Google account" registration for a Google account associated to any other email address. Google Play Store in Android 4 or later allows use of any Google account but requires a Google+ profile in order to leave a review of an app.
Yesterday I just got my first ex-felon to mysteriously add me to his G+ circles via youtube
"Ex-felon" means he's not a felon anymore. He's done his time; he's rehabilitated. Why should society give him what amounts to a life sentence?
Wonder how many people gave G+ an instant and permanent dismissal based on just that one overreach?
It's OK Bender, there's no such thing as 2.
I clicked some stuff in a pretty deceptive box which kept coming up on Youtube about my name, not clearly outling what it was about to do (bind my gmail / google account to youtube)
Problem is, uncoupling it (which I've always been able to do) COMPLETELY hides / "damages" my videos. You can no longer view them, they are bound to the G+ account now, NOT the original account.
If I re-activate G+, bam the videos are back.
This has, I admit, made me post significantly more carefully in youtube comments. That being said, I've also held back on a plethora of youtube comments simply as I don't want even my hobbies known / tracked by others. My privacy is pretty important to me, and having my "real" google identity become my youtube comment identity was definitely an issue.
(Before anyone says it, not all youtube comments are ghastly. I'd say quite a good portion are infact, quite good and informative)
So,.......... will this be a FULL reversal? Pull my G+ account away from YT AND restoring my old YT data / profile / videos / views?
... how do i check if i'm on google+ and if i am (i never was intentionally but who knows what i clicked wrong) how can i remove myself from this abomination?
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It always sucked, and I'm always happy when Google fails. Fuck Google and fuck Facebook.
First 1) they introduce feature nobody wants then 2) force everybody to use it, and when everyone's adjusted to it, they 3) remove it or "uncouple it"... often the first step to dropping it altogether.. Boy they do that a lot. Why don't they do more pre-release research instead?
I like the cut of your jib, anon. We should hang out.
/but not as friends... because of reasons.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.