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> Well then good for you, and you should be able to merge all your accounts with Google into one; but why should this be almost compulsory? Quite often here on

by mbell 13y ago

> Well then good for you, and you should be able to merge all your accounts with Google into one; but why should this be almost compulsory? Quite often here on Hacker News we sit around and talk about how removing features or options from an App is often the best thing to do for usability. I think this is true. At the same time every time this comes up with regards to Google or some other large company the response flips around completely. Ultimately I think the readership here is just the 10% of users that want the option, exactly the group we often say that should be ignored for the overall good of the product.

chrismonsanto 13y ago
"I'm annoyed at YouTube for bothering me to use my real name" is not exclusively an HN thing. Most content creators in the video game community who publish on YT do it under an alias, or under an account representing their website/community. For us, YT's failure to separate personal accounts from organization/business accounts (the main complaint in the article) is a constant problem.
jimmaswell 13y ago
I really hate that attitude. I'm tired of seeing features and options constantly disappearing from the applications I use.
criley2 13y ago
It's not that. It's Google becoming more and more mainstream. It's Lowest Common Denominator Google. Every revision, something else is gone. Another menu is missing, another option. After scouring enough Google Support forums, tinkering in enough settings and trying enough workarounds, it's the only solution I can come to. Google isn't the hacker search engine we fell in love with over a decade ago. It's an advertising company looking to monetize on a user's lack of privacy to help connect them with advertisers. Adwords is 99% of their business. We can't just ignore that forever. The lowest common denominator of user is the the type of user is probably most susceptible not controlling their privacy well enough and for Google being able to target them widely. How much does Google really care about us ad-block toting hacker types anyway?

by mbell 13y ago

chrismonsanto 13y ago

"I'm annoyed at YouTube for bothering me to use my real name" is not exclusively an HN thing. Most content creators in the video game community who publish on YT do it under an alias, or under an account representing their website/community. For us, YT's failure to separate personal accounts from organization/business accounts (the main complaint in the article) is a constant problem.

jimmaswell 13y ago

I really hate that attitude. I'm tired of seeing features and options constantly disappearing from the applications I use.

criley2 13y ago

It's not that. It's Google becoming more and more mainstream. It's Lowest Common Denominator Google. Every revision, something else is gone. Another menu is missing, another option. After scouring enough Google Support forums, tinkering in enough settings and trying enough workarounds, it's the only solution I can come to. Google isn't the hacker search engine we fell in love with over a decade ago. It's an advertising company looking to monetize on a user's lack of privacy to help connect them with advertisers. Adwords is 99% of their business. We can't just ignore that forever. The lowest common denominator of user is the the type of user is probably most susceptible not controlling their privacy well enough and for Google being able to target them widely. How much does Google really care about us ad-block toting hacker types anyway?