I dont see the problem.

seriously. so you cant vote on something on googles website without being logged into googles website?

and whiney wil wheaton is bitchign about it?

3 words: Shut up, Wesley.

PS I thought you always had to log in to like or dislike a video???

I don’t have any problem with those that don’t mind the datamining and crap going right on to do this. Good for them.

Call me a troglodyte, don’t much care. But Google, Facebook, Reddit, the rest of them can kiss it as far as I am concerned cause I won’t be one of them there.

I come here frequently to read and once in a while to comment. I do that because I don’t have to sign up to make that comment.

Those that don’t mind doing all this sign up, I am sure won’t have any troubles with all the crap that is being tried to be pushed on to the internet to spy in your email, your social apps, and what you do on line. Can’t say as I see much difference in the government doing it or one of the apps datamining for them and then turning it over.

One of these days with the way things are going, we will be where China is today. The Great Firewall of China started out being a way to control pirates. Surely if you are doing nothing wrong you have nothing to fear eh? Will you feel that same way if we wind up with the near same type of government concern over your well being like China displays? The net isn’t like you wrote it down on a notepad in your apartment. What ever it is will be around a lot longer on the net.

Except that he is right on. I will no longer vote if I have to login. That is one additional step that will not be worth my time.

So what?

you could never vote before if you didnt login.

so you make no sense.

oh they slightly altered the requirement to be “logged in”? quit your insane bitching. that is well within googles right and not an onus.

youtube already was a partial social network. now they are replacing the socialpart of youtube with google logins instead of youtube or gmail logins.

really, this is completely irrelevant and not worth anyones time bitching about.

Do us all a favor, and take your shilling to the wallstreet journal. We care about our privacy, and you need to shut the hell up.

Yeah, “they have to do it!”.

And crapple HAS to outsource jobs to obtain competitive slave labor in China too. Cry me a river over the poor oppressed corporations in America.

Come on… Cry.

People are happy enough to drink at the Facebook fountain and in the name of hell hand over whatever, but when it comes to Google there seems to be minority of people who are sour faces moaning about changes and Google plus. Grow up! No one asked you to use their free services so if you don’t like them s*d off to Facebook, Microsoft and Apple!

Who’s Will whatsit anyway?

No, you misunderstand. Before (and hopefully, forever) you only had to log into Youtube to do everything on Youtube. This requires you to log into Youtube, and THEN into Google+, just to use 2 simple buttons that were previously always usable. Imagine if people without G+ couldn’t downvote the Reply Girls, and no one would know that they had -97% popularity?

My problem with this is that google is using their position as leads on web search,video and mail to push google plus and forcing it down my throat, while I don’t want to join one.

I mean, I already have a youtube acc, why my functionalities are limited because I opted out of G+ (despite all their efforts to sneakly try to make me sign up for that)?

Your service will get users if it’s good and if people feel it’s convenient. Forcing G+ down people’s throat has higher chances of backfiring than anything – if the power of the google brand is not enough to drive legions of users to it, forcibly tying services into it won’t be the answer.

If people didn’t left facebook for it by now, I doubt they will.

Who remembers Buzz?

I have several Google accounts and refuse to enable G+ on any of them. What I really want to know is not whether Youtube accounts are being rolled over to general Google accounts (because that ship will sail, like it or not); the bigger question is, are we going to get Buzz 2.0, with Google happily posting my “likes” to a G+ page I never consented to have created for me?

So much for refusing to get a Facebook account to preserve a few remaining shreds of privacy….

the washed up has been known formerly as wesley crusher from star trek the next generation.

now hes a celebrity blogger. and mike masnick follows his blog and reposts it more often than he should cause every time he does, its just crybaby whining.

Did you even read the whole story? Of COURSE you have to have a Youtube account to thumbs up something. That has been the situation for years. No one cares. When he says “Core of my audience” he basically means subscribers and you need an account to subscribe to someone on Youtube. Here he is SPECIFICALLY talking about the fact that you need an account on, what is essentially, a 3rd party website in order to like a video.

Apple is supposedly this creative, wonderful place except in reality focuses on making one size fits all products with names reflecting that philosophy. No creativity exists in anything they do since their “creativity” is actually just a pile of money used to temporarily monopolize certain logical technological advances (like the really “mind blowing” retina display, sigh) and then they slap some Lowest Common Denominator, general-use word with as few possible syllables in front of a lowercase ‘i’ so they can trademark it:

iMp3 is WAAY too many syllables, and Apple probably would have a hard time trademarking it, so its iPod

iTunes just is a sacrifice they were forced to make because its hard to come up with a 3 letter word that has one syllable and is still quasi relevant to the idea

iPhone, same as itunes. iCell just wasn’t LCD enough.

iMac – again because Macintosh is too many syllables and the word “macintosh” doesn’t sound hip, and is a LOT harder to remember than 3 letter words following a lowercase ‘i’, also, iCpu wouldn’t work.

iTV – not out yet but thats the obvious as fuck name because it required no thought whatsoever to meet the LCD requirement and is STILL trademark-able!!!! Bonus points!

iCloud again the LCD, unoriginal naming

iPad – wow genius… its, its like this shape, like a PAD of paper… like a… notePAD!

My brain is fried from trying so hard to reverse engineer the thought processes Apple’s obvious geniuses went through to overcome all obstacles and the sheer unimaginable odds that stood in their courageous paths to name their products so “elegantly”. I’m really excited to see what general descriptive words can have an ‘i’ slapped in front of it and sold to me in the future!

My problem is the opposite, my google account is on my real name because I use gmail as a personal under my real name account. I have a youtube account connected to it but it originally started as a separate deal way before I even got into college when google wasn’t into the whole bundling accounts thing.

Now I’m an adult and have become a teacher, sure I’m still a young one but I have a image of respect to keep in front of from my students, and that’s why I don’t keep a social network profile – I’m all for being close to students, but I still want to keep my privacy and the image that comes with it.

I don’t want to be forced to sign up to Google+ and have my students to search for my name and see that I have +1’d “Super Pony Time” or other random youtube poop which will lead me to abandon the thumbs up/+1 system entirely – and I don’t doubt a lot of people will do the same.

IMHO, I really don’t like this whole deal of slowly removing the separation between public and private that social networks are doing, and Google Plus is the worse offender.

Not a fan, then?

OH MY GOD! YOU HAVE TO TAKE A MINUTE TO MAKE AN ACCOUNT OR PRESS A BUTTON TO DO SOMETHING ON YOUTUBE NOW! First world problems. Technology has made people retarded and lazy…

I sure do like having to sign up for a million google services in order to tell someone who made a good video that he’s better than the endless sea of terrible vlogs that is youtube.

We should just make it where you have to be logged into Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Reddit, Digg, Discus, Blip, and Viddler in order to be able to make a comment anywhere on the internet.

I can’t Log into your Reddit account to make the most of your memes! hard enough to make the stupidity of your comment go away.

Oh, you appear to forgotten that everyone else has to have a Reddit account in order to see memes on the internet. Might want to fix that.

To do that, you have to log into your 4chan gold account, and then link your 4chan account to your reddit account, which has to be verified on facebook, and then log onto your internet meme database account and uncheck ‘Make my memes exclusive to gold account members’. Otherwise everyone else just gets that message to log in.

If only someone spoke out about this problem of interlacing, pointless internet services before the walled garden apocalypse. Feels Log into your Reddit account to make the most of your memes! man.

1) They are testing how users respond to this change. Not in a “man I’m angry” sense, but in a “does it generate more clicks” sense.

Wrong, they are testing to see how loudly users yell before they force this change on them.

You need to have a youtube channel to comment or even up or down vote a comment.

So I do neither now.

+ RequestPolicy

Speak for yourself. I like it. I also like how it changes density based on display size. I switched as soon as it was available.

Then aaain I don’t mind change. I used to run a forum, and before had to deal with cries of “what did you do to my facebook?” I heard the cries of “what did you do to my message board?” And ignored them, because it was usually the same interface with a different theme. In two weeks most people didn’t even notice.

You may still notice the change in email. But how different is it, really? Most buttons/displays are in the same place, they just changed the packaging.

Actually these are not insignificant changes. These are changes, minro or major that google views to be essential or critical in their next phase or progression of google, where they see the company going, what they want it to become, product wise and in terms of maximizing and streamlining their data. So all in all it seems like google is cleaning up and growing up. They are offering new products. They are enhancing their terms and fundamentals. They have updated, over the years, their vision and their brand.

I don’t really see what they are doing as damaging, as much as it is “different” as in that all things change and at some point people adapt or die. If google moves on and becomes the next of what the company is, maybe someone else will key in on the things that made google in the first place and bring that to the fore as a new business. Some of the things google has done I’ve seen in different lights (I used to think their blogging platform wouldn’t be able to compete because there were new and cooler bloggin platforms or even networking platforms out like wp,lj,tumblr, etc…but still that blogspot thing exists and in some cases people are actually going back to the gblog platform…shocking i know) but I’m not overly critical of the company.

I actually understand WW’s concerns.

I’m an avid googler. I’ve been a google user for 14 yrs (most of my entire life) and I’ve used many of their products/services. I understand all the implications of being a google user especially with their adwords based model. I’ve kept up with and ditched products and ideas of theirs I like or don’t like or think would be impossible to create (which they then make happen), or things they do sometimes it seems like in an instant or a long forcast hail mary type pass which then doesn’t pan out for them. As a company and as they get bigger/older, I don’t really expect much from google, but I do atleast expect them to have and keep to their core tenets, but I don’t expect them to forever be unchanging. Like I said before some things they do I like, some I don’t, some I think is unnecessary, some things I don’t expect to succeed actually surpass expectations. As a google user, most of the time I’m really happy with the company. I don’t mind their evolving, but I wish that they would listen to their users and allow all options for everyone instead of the best options for the company as it moves forward (which is countrer intuitive). I use google in a particular way and I’m one of many users but I understand that everyone uses google differently as well, but maybe in a particular repetitive habitual way since google has become so streamlined into our lives. I almost can’t remember a time when the company didn’t exists and when there were other search companies available. Now and like back then, even though there are different options, most people still use google through the good and the bad. I’m not a youtuber. I don’t use google commercially. Google isn’t really vital for me, but I do use it all the time and it’s just a part of my everyday life. I don’t want to only have one google account with all their products available/streamlined or curated to me. I understand why they’re moving this way, to make our lives online more efficient, but I also don’t have to like the changes they’re making. I wish there were more ways that google could be more individualized to a person, but I also understand the pitfalls of that.

They’re trying to compact everyone into one big online-socialized id. They already know as much about a person/individual, but they would like to know more and how to maximize that information. They would like to improve our use of their company and products. I don’t begrudge them. I actually don’t think google is at all a bad company, but I think that as it grows and progresses and maybe as it’s users also grow that their views google’s views of the future might not be aligned and I think that would provide plenty of room for mistakes to happen.

I don’t use the gmail website. I configured Thunderbird to access my gmail account. Using a dedicated client program is faster and more flexible than using a web interface.

I dont’ see anything wrong with having to be signed into google to use one of google’s sites.