DutchBones
433 posts
Mar 07, 2011
6:57 PM
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I tried to log in to my youtube account, but I get rejected (not the first time in my life) but then a message tells me :
"Update your YouTube account by linking to a Google Account"
You will no longer be able to sign in to YouTube without a Google Account.
If you do not want to link this YouTube account, you can sign out here.
WTF is that about? does anybody else experiences this???
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Miles Dewar
757 posts
Mar 07, 2011
7:01 PM
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Yes. Google has completely screwed up the Internet..... Their aim I'm sure.
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garry
36 posts
Mar 07, 2011
7:53 PM
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google bought youtube long ago, and they've started consolidating their account management. it's a bit of a nuisance, but not a showstopper. if you don't have a google account, you can sign up for one. if you do, and don't want it linked, make a new one for just this purpose.
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sorin
259 posts
Mar 07, 2011
8:00 PM
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Lol you have been out of the game for quite some time Dutchbones....
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Joe_L
1117 posts
Mar 07, 2011
8:31 PM
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Same thing here, but it happened a month or so ago.
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DutchBones
434 posts
Mar 08, 2011
1:50 AM
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Thanks for the update guys. I signed up with google, otherwise I won't be able to access my youtube account and check my mail... hate to be forced though...
@ sorin hope to find some time to play again... in the mean time, I just have to do with stopping by here for my daily harp shot
Thanks again!
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ridge
203 posts
Mar 08, 2011
6:31 AM
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Dutchbones,
I resisted linking my accounts as long as I could. They were trying to get me to do it a year ago. I tried and got locked out of my account. Luckily the second time around it worked like a charm.
Glad it all worked out for you.
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Ant138
815 posts
Mar 08, 2011
6:50 AM
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I tried putting it off for months but they broke me and i've sucumb:o(
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nacoran
3870 posts
Mar 08, 2011
2:48 PM
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I was having some issues because I had the same account name on both but different passwords. It kept assuming I was trying to sign in with the one with the password that didn't match. Eventually they got that fixed though.
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jonlaing
204 posts
Mar 09, 2011
8:31 AM
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It's really not a big deal. Having one consolidated username prevents spam and makes it easier for users to remember their credentials. You'll find a lot more websites asking you to sign in with Google accounts in the future, even if Google doesn't own them. It's a free service, and it makes the web safer, and more organized.
Google is only winning the web because their services are free and accessible.
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Sausagescoffer
31 posts
Mar 09, 2011
11:34 AM
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Google has a terrible Captcha which I find unreadable!! How am I meant to 'upgrade' if I can't read the damn thing!!!!!
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MrVerylongusername
1602 posts
Mar 09, 2011
12:30 PM
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Of course you need to remember that everything you search on google is logged by google. If you have google toolbar or Chrome running, your entire browsing history is logged by google. Every location you explore on Google earth is logged by Google. Every journey you plan on Google maps is logged by Google.
Now everything you watch on youtube is logged by google.
It's like those store loyalty cards, it's all just a way of creating a rounded picture of everything to do with you, your family and your life for the sake of targetting adverts at you more precisely. How do you think Google got to being the huge, money spinning business it is?
Good thing or bad thing? I'll let you decide.
It so all pervasive that trying to fight it is impossible without compromises and sacrifices.
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Honkin On Bobo
625 posts
Mar 09, 2011
12:44 PM
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"It so all pervasive that trying to fight it is impossible without compromises and sacrifices. "
Very true, for a while YT would ask you to link to a google account...I kept declining as there was a lttle spot on the screen in tiny print which would allow you to bypass doing that. Finally, one day as I'm attempting to log in to YT, big message on the screen..... in order to do that I MUST create a google account. Either our way or the highway, basically. So I caved.
More recently, I wanted to send a rock/blues drummer friend of mine a great song that I thought would be perfect for his band. Asked him for e-mail address so I could send him a YT link to the song. Nope. He tells me send it to his facebook page, he never reads his e-mail anymore. But i don't have a facebook page and I don't fucking want one. Oh well, his loss.
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kudzurunner
2372 posts
Mar 09, 2011
2:02 PM
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Here's how Google's scam works:
You want to watch and comment on YouTube videos, but now you have to sign into google. Nothing wrong with that. But after you've visited YouTube, you forget that you're signed into google. So if you now go back to google and search for a few things, you do so as a "signed in" user, and Google tracks all your searches and stores them as data connected with your name. You are now a monetized consumer and google sells the information its collected about your surfing/searching habits to other firms who then try to sell you stuff.
That's how it works.
So I make it a point, after visiting YouTube, of signing out of Google before I search anything on Google.
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nacoran
3873 posts
Mar 09, 2011
3:20 PM
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I'm not sure Google sells the information. I think they keep it in house for targeting ads. That still means that you end up with ads for Viagra when you Google Smokestack Lightning, but the ads are served by Google and you only end up giving your information to the fine people at Pfizer if you click the ad. Apple and Facebook do the same thing, although Facebook is a little sleazier and lots of their apps leak information. Apple goes a step farther does it's best to lock you into it's software and hardware so you can never log out, and then they take a 30% cut of the sale.
Whichever software ecosphere you end up in they are going to try to run their business off your traffic. Personally, I think Google is more upfront about it and does a better job keeping their business model in line with the customers best interests, but you can get bad cookies anywhere. Ever wonder why online newspapers want you to make a free account?
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