Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

Re:Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years by naterator on Friday November 08, 2013 @10:41AM (#6696680)

This is the thing that bothers/scares me the most about this balkanization of the internet that's happening. You end up getting forced into bubbles that someone else has decided you belong in. And if you don't know it's happening, you can't even try to stop it. For me, I have not found utility in the things that have been selected for me, so most of these services are becoming useless. All those "smartest guys in the room" at places like Facebook and Google and Wherever are really fucking up if their goal was to direct me to things I like and might pay money for.

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Re:Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years by ywyrd on Friday November 08, 2013 @01:14PM (#6697956)

The crazy/frustrating part to me is that this takes place "even when you're not signed into an account".

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Re:Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years by seiji on Friday November 08, 2013 @10:44AM (#6696713)

Share and Enjoy

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Re:Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years by abraham on Friday November 08, 2013 @12:07PM (#6697430)

> You end up getting forced into bubbles that someone else has decided you belong in.

You are not forced into anything, if you don't want to be put into "bubbles" use other services.

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Re:Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years by EpicEng on Friday November 08, 2013 @03:00PM (#6698725)

Not that black and white and you know it. These services are obiqutous. It's sometimes impossible to ignore them and they do in fact provide a great experience (the best really) in many ways. That doesn't mean they don't have faults and it doesn't mean people who use these services should simply ignore said faults or move away from them completely.

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Re:Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years by exodust on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @08:22AM (#6717603)

"You are not forced into anything"

Pretty sure that's incorrect. If I want to rate an app I purchased on Google Play with my Google account, with my Google smartphone, I need to post that review to Google+ even if I don't use or have a Google+ profile. That is lame, because I am forced to create a profile and use Google+ (in addition to having a basic Google account where my credit card and email are) just to submit a feedback score to the developer of the app.

Google forces its way between the task I'm undertaking - leaving a rating, and their Buzz 2.0 product which has nothing to do with me leaving a rating on an app I have paid money for.

Google can force whatever it likes on users as defaults, and I won't care one bit if they just allow options for users to change those default settings. Eg "don't use Google+", "don't hide editable subject field in the compose new message gmail window".

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Re:Co-Founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years by dredmorbius on Friday November 08, 2013 @04:23PM (#6699247)

Well, then you're put in the bubble of people who don't use the offending service.

And ... this may be news to you, but every once in a while a large bubbling company may actually buy some upstart service where their own attempts at NIH entry into a niche fail.

You know, like Google buying YouTube in the first place.

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