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Definitely think it is worth a bounty. For example I have a YouTube account(therefore a google plus account) that I don't want to share as my personal email. T

Definitely think it is worth a bounty. For example I have a YouTube account(therefore a google plus account) that I don't want to share as my personal email. This bug was literally the exact reason I did not acctualy want to connect my YouTube account to google plus. But there was no real choice more like, take it or leave it.

TomAnthony 13y ago
Yeah - there was a lot of backlash around the move to a single account for everything. It isn't just YouTube either, Picasa and others also set you up in the same ecosystem. There are plenty of people who don't want the email address used to log in to these accounts to be public.
- slashdotaccount 13y ago
  What's wrong with registering a second Google account for Youtube only (and not using its Gmail part)?
  - TomAnthony 13y ago
    Nothing! Lots of people do that, I believe. The problem is this bug would have let me easily find out your secret YouTube email address.
  - barrkel 13y ago
    I deleted my whole Google+ profile in order to disconnect the connection I accidentally made earlier. It was the only way I could see to do it.
  - pjc50 13y ago
    You then have to be very disciplined about logging your google accounts in and out, and either give up on tabbed browsing or have a youtube-only browser and an "other" browser. On Android, you don't have this choice.
pasbesoin 13y ago
I segregate some activity across different Google accounts. By using different browser makes (Chrome versus Firefox versus...). And/or by using different data profiles in those browsers (not just the "change user" feature of the Google web properties, but a completely different browser profile subdirectory). My oldest and most-used Google account (formerly known as a Gmail account), I refuse to Google+ify, as long as I can. For reasons like the OP situation and others. A while back, I needed to use Hangouts. I +ified another Gmail account that I used for a subset of general business contact. If/when it is borked, I can walk away from it. And it doesn't contain data I worry overly about "bleeding".
Shooti 13y ago
Disconnect your channel from the G+ profile and link to a G+ Page instead: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2897336 https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2897336
chmars 13y ago
It's getting more difficult. The Google iOS apps for Gmail and YouTube for example use the same user credentials, i.e., I can no longer have only my Gmail account in the Gmail app and only my YouTube account in the YouTube app.

TomAnthony 13y ago

Yeah - there was a lot of backlash around the move to a single account for everything. It isn't just YouTube either, Picasa and others also set you up in the same ecosystem. There are plenty of people who don't want the email address used to log in to these accounts to be public.

slashdotaccount 13y ago
What's wrong with registering a second Google account for Youtube only (and not using its Gmail part)?
- TomAnthony 13y ago
  Nothing! Lots of people do that, I believe. The problem is this bug would have let me easily find out your secret YouTube email address.
- barrkel 13y ago
  I deleted my whole Google+ profile in order to disconnect the connection I accidentally made earlier. It was the only way I could see to do it.
- pjc50 13y ago
  You then have to be very disciplined about logging your google accounts in and out, and either give up on tabbed browsing or have a youtube-only browser and an "other" browser. On Android, you don't have this choice.

pasbesoin 13y ago

I segregate some activity across different Google accounts. By using different browser makes (Chrome versus Firefox versus...). And/or by using different data profiles in those browsers (not just the "change user" feature of the Google web properties, but a completely different browser profile subdirectory). My oldest and most-used Google account (formerly known as a Gmail account), I refuse to Google+ify, as long as I can. For reasons like the OP situation and others. A while back, I needed to use Hangouts. I +ified another Gmail account that I used for a subset of general business contact. If/when it is borked, I can walk away from it. And it doesn't contain data I worry overly about "bleeding".

Shooti 13y ago

Disconnect your channel from the G+ profile and link to a G+ Page instead: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2897336 https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2897336

chmars 13y ago

It's getting more difficult. The Google iOS apps for Gmail and YouTube for example use the same user credentials, i.e., I can no longer have only my Gmail account in the Gmail app and only my YouTube account in the YouTube app.