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onehandle

(51,122 posts)
Mon Jul 27, 2015, 01:12 PM Jul 2015

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 doesn’t 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



Google+ is still a thing?

If you are counting, this is Google's seventh failed social network.
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Google officially ends forced Google+ integration—First up: YouTube (Original Post) onehandle Jul 2015 OP
Google is much better at software engineering than social engineering. Ed Suspicious Jul 2015 #1
Great, so people no longer have to make up accounts owned by MADem Jul 2015 #2
bravo. good by. wont miss ya. allan01 Jul 2015 #3
The end of a terrible idea. Oneironaut Jul 2015 #4
Maybe Microsoft might want to take notice.... Historic NY Jul 2015 #5
"Don't be evil" takes a while to kick-in, I guess -- nt Freelancer Jul 2015 #6
Really? Re spam... MattSh Jul 2015 #7
I logged on to YouTube to make a comment and was required to give my real name 1monster Jul 2015 #8

MADem

(135,425 posts)
2. Great, so people no longer have to make up accounts owned by
Mon Jul 27, 2015, 01:18 PM
Jul 2015

Fah Kew or Kisma Hazz!

It's just so ridiculous, all this forced linking!

Oneironaut

(5,461 posts)
4. The end of a terrible idea.
Mon Jul 27, 2015, 01:36 PM
Jul 2015

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)
5. Maybe Microsoft might want to take notice....
Mon Jul 27, 2015, 02:18 PM
Jul 2015

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

MattSh

(3,714 posts)
7. Really? Re spam...
Mon Jul 27, 2015, 02:28 PM
Jul 2015

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)
8. I logged on to YouTube to make a comment and was required to give my real name
Mon Jul 27, 2015, 03:05 PM
Jul 2015

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.

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