Google is making a huge and annoying mistake

Re:Google is making a huge and annoying mistake by Wilya on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @02:01PM (#3920346)

You can't thumb up on Youtube without a Google Account (which is not exactly the same as a Google+ account).

And, I already get the +1s (or thumbs up, or whatever it's called) of the people I follow on Youtube, in my Youtube stream. And I do like things there. On the other hand, sharing ? I'd think twice before doing it.

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Re:Google is making a huge and annoying mistake by VikingCoder on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @02:40PM (#3920505)

So, to make some people happy, Google would have to allow you to have a separate Google account, Google+ account, and YouTube account.

To make other people happy, it would be completely optional to link those accounts together - but keep them separate, for some reason.

To make other people happy, they should be able to use one account to do all of the those things.

Finally, to make other people happy, Google should just be a search engine with 10 blue links.

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Re:Google is making a huge and annoying mistake by Wilya on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @03:32PM (#3920727)

I don't really argue one way or another. Just wanted to precise that the anonymous user issue is a bit irrelevant. They couldn't do anything before, they still can't do anything.

What changes (if they really do what the original blog post suggests) is this: * They remove the up/down votes system internal to Youtube (which is already a full-fledged system, where you have a stream where you can see when someone you follow likes something, etc) * They move 'share to Google+' from the 'Share' submenu (where it already is, alongside with Facebook, Twitter) to where the up/down votes were

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Re:Google is making a huge and annoying mistake by crag on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @03:17PM (#3920665)

Actually you can have separate accounts right now. And you can link all the account right now, if your want too. This also works with Google Apps too.

BUt I don't have a Google + account. Though not for Google not trying. And frankly I don't want one. FB is enough for me.

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Re:Google is making a huge and annoying mistake by nekojima on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @02:30PM (#3920458)

I have a Youtube only account, not linked to any other Google services or their hosted email, and I can up or down vote any of the three videos I just randomly clicked on to check this out.

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Re:Google is making a huge and annoying mistake by Wilya on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @03:20PM (#3920673)

Err, it most likely is also a Google account, even a basic one, or at least linked to one. Unless you know a trick that I don't.

As far as I know, the migration from Youtube accounts to Google accounts has been forced some time ago (I tried to avoid it as long as I could).

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Re:Google is making a huge and annoying mistake by BigTigger on Thursday May 03, 2012 @08:55AM (#3923610)

Surely it's simple enough to create a google account that's only used for youtube?

We do it on our server at home.

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