I remember a few months ago when YouTube kept asking me to use my full name or keep my name, it got pretty annoying after a while. I thought it would be an optional thing until they decided I NEEDED a Google Plus account and that both accounts most be merged together where any edit on one side account reflects on the other. I recently made a new YouTube account along with my friends for our future Let's Play/video game-YouTube channels and unfortunately learned we all needed to make Gmail accounts for it. Problem is that I thought my second account also used my main Comcast email so I spent 2 hours a few weeks ago trying to access the new account, only to find out I NEED to login with my Gmail account that I never intended on creating or using. They're so busy trying to be "innovative" that they seem to not give a shit what their users think and it's annoying.
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If you don't use Google Plus as a social service, just think of it as your Google account with which you sign in to YouTube. I don't see what the big problem is.
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I hate the real name thing but they give you the opportunity to break the account in 2, you get 1 channel with your real name (that I never use) and the second one With my nick (pesmerga) so it's not a big deal, the real problems here are:
Auto quality settings, why can't you remember the 480p option? damn, it's so annoying to set it everytime i visit the site
Stupid fucking annotations, I don't care what's the next video or the channel logo on the top right corner, remove that shit, I don't wanna turn off annotations completely, there might be a message from the uploader
Autoplay, when your video ends, another one will start in 10 seconds unless you click on "cancel" bullshit
and much more.
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For all of those points and more, I've been using the Yousable TubeFix Greasemonkey script for a year or three.
Additionally, using Windows Firewall, I very recently started blocking specific incoming IPs in order to get fewer crappy YouTube server streams (those where the "stream" doesn't stream, but just kinda pokes along like a turtle following a trail of salad on a highway) -- whether or not it really fixed things, I'm not sure yet, but so far so good (info and more info), although I've had dodgy streams for a year or more so I don't always even notice them anymore.
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Soon everything will be merged into one ginormous clusterfuck of ultimate functionality, they'll force you to merge every important profile, including your bank account, with your Fuckbook/G-Shit+ or you'll be banned from the internets. Get your tinfoil hats ready, I'm not even joking.
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And that company will be called either Tyrell Corporation or Weyland Utani.
But for real, the bigger fish are eating the smaller ones and really running with the entire "social singularity" thing. More and more information is being combined into something bigger than just passive data collection to ensure functionality. I mean, shit, if they keep absorbing one another, all the disparate pieces of information would make quite a nice 'full profile' of users wouldn't it?
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I tried to delete my Google account, because that shit was unneeded. Thanks Google for warning me that I would delete my youtube account at the same time. I gave up after two hours of recovering and trying to answer the damn questions "when was the last time you bathed your neighbor's cat with your tongue?" How the fuck should I know, I only made this shit because it was forced. Well I made a new one and managed to get my favorites where they belong, that's all that matters.
What the shit happened to "do not share personal information on the internet" Now every fucking place is forcing you to do that crap.
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It's the same thing. Stop being idiots and accept the fact that you DON'T own YouTube and have NO right to whine about it. If you want to whine about something, protest against the millions of slaves in Africa, and not some website.
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"have NO right to whine about it"
In fact, you will find that we have every right to grumble amongst ourselves about changes we do not like.
Just as you have the right to be obnoxious in a quasi-anonymous internet forum.
PS : The "THERE ARE CHILDREN STARVING IN JAPAN" logic is bullshit used to get kids to eat their spinach, and doesn't hold water in this discussion.
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I still did not check why I can just reply on some comments....
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Fuck. Google.
You can't reply to people, you can't do anything... I nearly broke my mouse CREATING THIS PIECE OF SHIT GOOGLE+ ACCOUNT TO ACTUALLY USE YOUTUBE! WOW SUCH SHIT.
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So now im really pissed off, but THEY DONT EXPLAIN HOW TO FUCKING REPLY!
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If you tell it "No" enough times it will stop asking and just give you the option to post as either your username or your real name whenever you want.
So many overreactions here.
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I'm currently pissed and amazed with the amount of shit that's coming out with every new redesign of YouTube. I feel like if you entered the office in YouTube building where they come up with all new designs for page, you would find one chimpanzee smashing his big stupid hands on keyboard.
You are all probably aware that YouTube was bought by Google and is now trying to follow big daddys Facebook steps into turning YouTube into a nice social website where you can share your video experience with all you friends and family, also known as GOOGLE FUCKING PLUS.
I'm sure most of you are familiar that YouTube is politely asking you to start using your full name on your channel and if you don't feel like it, that's ok, they will ask you on next video again when you might have changed your mind. 3 times now I even had to delete G+ profile that I didn't even want to create and Google kindly created for me and linked it with my YouTube channel. I know that people that are actually using G+ don't see what's the big deal about this, but for me this kind of aggressive expansion really gets on my nerves.
So I would like to hear your opinion on the subject, please comment, if you think I'm over reacting do tell me so. I've tried to post my dissatisfaction somewhere on YouTube but as it turns out, YouTube is so fucked up that I can't even reply to most of the comments there, in fact I can't even leave a comment of my own at the moment.
With all this being said, I'd like to end this thread in funny note.
EDIT: if you are like me fed up with popup asking you to change your channel name and are using some sort of adblock, you can create custom filter with this rule to make it go away
||s.ytimg.com/yts/jsbin/www-linkgplusdialog*
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