Google officially ends forced Google+ integration—First up: YouTube
Source: Ars Technica
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In a blog post published today titled "Everything in its right place," Google acknowledged that forcing its users into Google+ was a bad idea. The company said it will no longer require Google+ accounts to use any of its products, and as we've seen it happening, it will continue stripping Google+ integration out of all of its products. "It doesnt make sense for your Google+ profile to be your identity in all the other Google products you use," the company said.
The next product to be de-plussified is YouTube. The YouTube blog announced that "in the coming weeks" comments will no longer require Google+; as of today, comments made on YouTube won't show up on Google+, and vice-versa. Google also says that in the future, YouTube users will be able to delete the Google+ accounts that they were forced to make, without losing any data. (Don't do that right now because you will lose data.)
YouTube's Google+ integration was almost universally disliked by users. It lead to an influx of spam, and many of the sites popular personalities came out against the new comment system. To this day, some popular channels still have comments disabled altogether. The cofounder of YouTube even came out against the system, asking "Why the f*** do I need a Google+ account to comment on a video?"
So far, we've seen Google strip Google+ out of Gmail, Search, the navigation bar, Photos, Hangouts, and dump the real name policy. With YouTube integration out the window next, there really isn't too much of Google+ left in the other Google products.
Read more: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/07/google-officially-ends-forced-google-integration-first-up-youtube
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Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Fah Kew or Kisma Hazz!
It's just so ridiculous, all this forced linking!
allan01
(1,950 posts)Oneironaut
(5,461 posts)Google+ is trash, and making people use it was annoying. If not for the forced usage, nobody would use it. If Google wanted to be an answer to Facebook, they did a terrible job.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)I found they weave you into signing in when you really don't want to on Windows 8.1 pro imagine how Windows 10 will be
Freelancer
(2,107 posts)MattSh
(3,714 posts)Everything I've seen indicates that spam on Youtube has decreased immensely because people were much more likely to be using a real identity. Youtube comments used to be one of the worst on the internet, before G+ integration.
1monster
(11,012 posts)in order to comment. I tried to cancel the page, but every time I tried to open a video on YouTube, the page came back up. I couldn't even view a YouTube vid.
So, I printed in No Nonono! in the name box.
A few months later, a relative asked me what the heck I'd done because every time he attempted to email me, the address box came up with No Nonono!
By then, I'd forgotten about it and it took me a while to correct it. I put my first name in and just a letter for my last name, but I will be happy to erase that out of there. It is none of their business what I watch on YouTube. I guess, since I used Google Search and occasionally Google maps, that they can already track everywhere I go on the Internet. I just don't see why they should make it any easier for others to do the same.