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The YouTube/Google+ integration would have been much smoother if it started by giving every existing user a G+ "Page" identity matching their YouTube name, and
by jmillikin 13y ago
The YouTube/Google+ integration would have been much smoother if it started by giving every existing user a G+ "Page" identity matching their YouTube name, and making that page their default YouTube identity. From the user's perspective there would be no risk of accidentally connecting their legal name to YouTube, and Google would have achieved their goal of a unified login system.
- waqf 13y agoThis. It's too bad Google conflated their technical goal of a unified login system with their policy goal of whatever-their-policy-goal-is — probably something to do with knowing more about their users and/or getting them to interact with social features more.
- tesseractive 13y agoWhich is pretty funny to me, because this flat-out guarantees that I will not use their social features. As a currently non-transitioning trans woman, there are a great many YouTube videos that I enjoy but absolutely can not have associated with my legal name.
- AndiS 13y agoI understand how unsafe and unsettled that must make you feel, and I hope that you are able to continue enjoying YouTube without endangering and/or outing yourself. Good luck.
- bowlofpetunias 13y agoIn other words: exactly what the much maligned Yahoo did when integrating acquired services into Yahoo. They may have done a lot of things right, but they did that part right. You kept your original identity, and the single sign-on was a private matter, you didn't get publicly "outed" as Yahoo user FirstName LastName.