We Need To Talk, Google

Re:We Need To Talk, Google by mrweasel on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @02:46PM (#6252477)

I doubt that most users understand that Youtube and Google are the same company. Having a single signon between those two services makes very little sense. As for the other services, those under the Google brand, it makes more sense.

It's the attempt to push Google+ on me that I dislike.

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Re:We Need To Talk, Google by VikingCoder on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @02:51PM (#6252506)

> Having a single signon between those two services makes very little sense.

Where do you draw the line? GMail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, YouTube, Google+, Android, Chrome, Voice, Hangouts? Should they all have different sign-ons?

Is Google forbidden from integrating signons for all future companies it acquires?

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Re:We Need To Talk, Google by v13inc on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @03:00PM (#6252567)

Google has always integrated sign-ons between those services.

It is the unification of user profiles that is causing all the uproar.

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Re:We Need To Talk, Google by VikingCoder on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @03:10PM (#6252637)

You have a very short memory. Google has NOT always integrated sign-ons between those services, and there was an uproar when it happened.

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Re:We Need To Talk, Google by v13inc on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @03:44PM (#6252852)

You are right -- I don't really remember when I had to login with different credentials for Youtube, et al.

Just to clarify, I am making a distinction between being able to sign into a Youtube profile with a Google account and forcing the same profile across all Google properties.

Judging from my preferences, and based on my (limited) anecdotes, it seems that users appreciate the convenience of single-signin solutions, as long as each property they are signing into has a profile that can be managed separately.

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Re:We Need To Talk, Google by mattmcknight on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @11:40PM (#6255004)

If you seriously don't want to, just create two Google accounts...I'm using multiple sign-in across many of their web properties with my personal account and my corporate Google Apps account.

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Re:We Need To Talk, Google by login1234 on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @03:01PM (#6252570)

> Is Google forbidden from integrating signons for all future companies it acquires?

Forbidden, yes; held hostage by their users for all the free platforms they provide in exchange for all the theoretical dollars they generate in page views

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