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And go after me telling the NSA to screw off on YouTube :/

Seriously, why are people so effing paranoid. If you use the internet at all, they already *gasp* have at least some info about you. Oh noes!

People need to calm down.


I mean, when you registered for YT/G+/whatever, you had the option to use a fake name. If you put in your real name, and now they want to use that over your username, that's on you.
 

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If they force me to use my real name, I'll use a fake one.


I'm talking about point of registration though - Name, email address, DoB, etc. If you registered with your real name and they want to use that instead of a username now, you've got no room to complain that they're using your real name. They've had it since you registered. You had the option to say that your name is "Joe Shmoe" when you registered.

If they want to use my real name (which they are), then they can use my real name. I don't give a fuck, I'm not the only "Nick Riddle" in the world, I don't comment on YT unless it's something specifically about the video, usually a critique or constructive criticism or praise, and I also still just don't care.

Edit - to further prove my point, Google has access to my (Android) phone, my Gmail account, my G+ (which goes largely unused), my YT that I seldom do much with other than browse videos, my search history, and my primary browser on my computer.

If I was that concerned with Google having my name, I wouldn't be using their products in the first place.
 

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I'm talking about point of registration though - Name, email address, DoB, etc. If you registered with your real name and they want to use that instead of a username now, you've got no room to complain that they're using your real name. They've had it since you registered. You had the option to say that your name is "Joe Shmoe" when you registered.

If they want to use my real name (which they are), then they can use my real name. I don't give a fuck, I'm not the only "Nick Riddle" in the world, I don't comment on YT unless it's something specifically about the video, usually a critique or constructive criticism or praise, and I also still just don't care.

Edit - to further prove my point, Google has access to my (Android) phone, my Gmail account, my G+ (which goes largely unused), my YT that I seldom do much with other than browse videos, my search history, and my primary browser on my computer.

If I was that concerned with Google having my name, I wouldn't be using their products in the first place.


I simply stopped caring enough to do something about it as well. I have YT account, and since Google knows about me, who cares? I would stop using the internet if I was paranoid.
 

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Don't use your real name. How will they ever find out? They won't. Just bullshit your name, problem solved. Stop being so damned paranoid. What's stopping you from using fake information?


yes i know that, for now, but this is all working to incrementally implementing the real internet id act or similar legislation which will make it mandatory to id yourself biometrically on the internet, you will only have one account, they dont like what you do or say, you are shut off, im not saying i know how close or how far off that is

the problem right now though is that there are 2 fields ,so if you want to create a channel with a single word name that pertains to the content of the channel or just want to create a one word brand for your channel,you cant , and if google deletes your channel and its an old channel name system channel, then you cant create another one with the number 1 after it or a slightly changed name

that and they totally broke the commenting system even logged into g+ there are no reply buttons or thumbs up or down buttons on comments, and there are no links on reply comments that link you to the comment they are replying to , this is a deliberate attempt to shut down socialization on youtube , it is censorship , they are deliberately destroying their own system, and they are forcing people use a horribly unpopular product, nobody gives a fuck about, google+
 

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Is your tinfoil hat comfortable?

wow tin foil hat, how original ,did you come up with that yourself


"Also, the petition has almost 50k sigs in about 24hrs, not great but not bad either. And fkn Google+ is suspending the accounts of those who are sharing the petition!! How fcked up is that?? "

> fkn Google+ is suspending the accounts of those who are sharing the petition!! How fcked up is that?? "
 

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wow tin foil hat, how original ,did you come up with that yourself


"Also, the petition has almost 50k sigs in about 24hrs, not great but not bad either. And fkn Google+ is suspending the accounts of those who are sharing the petition!! How fcked up is that?? "

> fkn Google+ is suspending the accounts of those who are sharing the petition!! How fcked up is that?? "

Okay, so what do you care if Google+ is suspending accounts? And who else would care if they already signed the petition against it?
And not everyone needs to come up with their own material to be funny.
 

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The NSA is watching me watching cats on youtube... By the transitive property the NSA is being paid to watch cat video's on youtube...

How can I get that job? lol I would be happy with like 20 bucks an hour to spy on youtube, those cat video's won't watch themselves!!! lol

On the topic at hand, I wouldn't worry too much about youtube quality... Those cats look just fine in 720P :P

On an off topic note!!!

Watch this video and get a laugh from a Morgan Freeman impersonator!!!

 

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If anyone hasn't done so yet, add the "Youtube Center" extension to your navigator (Using "Developer Mode" if using Chrome). It's awesome. You can even get rid of that "feature" that makes buffering videos while paused impossible (it's called "DASH"), but ironically disabling that one causes some problems with 480p and 1080p resolutions (but works fine with others).
 

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google is deliberately breaking YT browser compatibility with FF to force people to use their spy browser chrome ,just like they force people to use gmail by merging YT and gmail logins,and try to force people to use their real names and have fucking 2 field name BS and want to get rid of channel names (which they will eventually make mandatory)

I still use firefox and it works perfectly fine with youtube videos without me having to adjust anything (and I use 480p quite a lot, 1080p not so much).
I still have not merged my youtube-account with anything (neither gmail nor google+), it's the same pure youtube-account I've had for 6-ish years (and it's still on "permanently logged in", let's hope I can guess my old password again once that ends).
When the "please use your real name" thing popped up, I simply clicked "no, thanks" once a day for a week and I've never seen it appear again since then.
When they fucked up the comments section I decided to simply not comment in the new system (and never look at them again either since there are now penis and hitler pictures everywhere and no report button to get rid of them) - I can easily live without a comments section.


While I agree that many of the changes google makes to youtube are annoying as hell, none of them have ever hindered me from watching videos (which, surprise, is the only reason people ever go to that site), so I see no reason to complain.
 

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google is deliberately breaking YT browser compatibility with FF to force people to use their spy browser chrome ,just like they force people to use gmail by merging YT and gmail logins,and try to force people to use their real names and have fucking 2 field name BS and want to get rid of channel names (which they will eventually make mandatory)

just like they merged YT with google+ to force people to use their failing fucking piece of shit social spy network

FUCK GOOGLE and FUCK GOOGLE+ BULLSHIT

makes me never want to buy an android device or use any of their software products ever again

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If anyone hasn't done so yet, add the "Youtube Center" extension to your navigator (Using "Developer Mode" if using Chrome). It's awesome. You can even get rid of that "feature" that makes buffering videos while paused impossible (it's called "DASH"), but ironically disabling that one causes some problems with 480p and 1080p resolutions (but works fine with others).
I have this, but since google started fudging around, replaying videos seems to stall unless I manually refresh the page. Really sucks when I use YouTube for music :/ I figure it's just script incompatibility with the YouTube update.
 

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I still use firefox and it works perfectly fine with youtube videos without me having to adjust anything (and I use 480p quite a lot, 1080p not so much).
I still have not merged my youtube-account with anything (neither gmail nor google+), it's the same pure youtube-account I've had for 6-ish years (and it's still on "permanently logged in", let's hope I can guess my old password again once that ends).
When the "please use your real name" thing popped up, I simply clicked "no, thanks" once a day for a week and I've never seen it appear again since then.
When they fucked up the comments section I decided to simply not comment in the new system (and never look at them again either since there are now penis and hitler pictures everywhere and no report button to get rid of them) - I can easily live without a comments section.


While I agree that many of the changes google makes to youtube are annoying as hell, none of them have ever hindered me from watching videos (which, surprise, is the only reason people ever go to that site), so I see no reason to complain.


Same here, I use Chrome and YouTube works just fine. Not sure what he's complaining about :P
 

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