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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this was already in place for quite a while. Google has slowly been trying to move away form pseudonyms altogether and fo
by eksith 13y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this was already in place for quite a while. Google has slowly been trying to move away form pseudonyms altogether and force Real Name policies like Facebook and things like YouTube, Blogger, Docs etc... were all slowly tied to one login system.
This was a problem for me at first because I ended up with multiple accounts with no way to merge them together. But I believe they started with YouTube.
I got an email saying they will deactivate/delete the account without verifying it (in this case "verify" was to create a Google account). I'm guessing this was only sent to accounts that hadn't uploaded any videos and mine had none at the time. A friend of mine also got the same email and she had no videos at the time either.
It makes sense from their end to create one account, but adding Google+ seems to be a case of forced adoption. I've used multiple gmail addresses and they've all prompted me to create a new G+ account whenever I logged in just to check the inbox. If I wanted to add another service, I've been hit with some sort of conflict message. I think Google is able to tell when the same person uses multiple gmail addresses.
- svitcov 13y agoYou may well be correct - I only noticed this now as most of the sites I frequent are not linked to my Google account. I know YouTube has been bugging me to put in a Real Name for a while, but I was never prompted before to create a fully fledged G+ profile (incl birth date, gender...)
- znowi 13y agoThe scary part is that the coercive push for Real Name, single identity is advantageous to both private sector (Google, Facebook, etc) and government (NSA, etc). The former get better tracking and ad revenues. The latter improved surveillance and control of the public.
- nivla 13y agoha this reminds me of the time I wanted to start a Youtube channel for a niche website I own. The crazy part, when signing up for Youtube, they also sign you up for Google+ and then force you to use your full name as the channel's name. That means, if your company name is ACME, your company's official Youtube channel is "Ron Burgundy". After failing to find a solution using Google Search, I decided to go with the next best option, change the real name to something sensible like "Acme YTVideos". BAM! A day later I receive a email from Google asking me to submit documents to verify that name or they will forcefully revert the channel's name to the Youtube username (ACMEVideos). LOL!