Generally interesting article. Makes his case pretty well "But YouTube definitely has to be its own thing; it’s got no real synergy that I can detect with any

Generally interesting article. Makes his case pretty well "But YouTube definitely has to be its own thing; it’s got no real synergy that I can detect with any other Google property." This is a funny observation because YouTube was originally an acquisition and its integration with other Google products is very strange. It has at most points in time had its own rules about anonymity, privacy, multiple accounts, etc. Supposedly the gender setting (now google-account-wide) was originally a YouTube piece of data that got repurposed for use in G+ and other services that needed it.