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| Abandoning Google |
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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Dizzy Egg said: I want that. Yeah, you could go to the market and buy three or four dozen brothers and sisters with all that! They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
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LennyLen
Member #5,313
December 2004
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jmasterx said: One of the best parts of YouTube was being able to anonymously tell an extremely talented person that they suck and that you are better!!11! ... Those days, are gone Not really. It only takes a couple of minutes to create a fake G+ account.
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pkrcel
Member #14,001
February 2012
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aaaaand this fuss is all about nothing as usual. I love google, even thou they never call'd me back for that job... It is unlikely that Google shares your distaste for capitalism. - Derezo |
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bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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Schyfis said: I know, right? Damn Google+ for requiring a Google+ profile! The audacity!
bamccaig said: I ragequit Google+ a few months back when they first required a G+ profile [to login to YouTube].
FTFM. -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
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Sirocco
Member #88
April 2000
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Eventually a G+ account will be required for everything. The hojillion or so gmail accounts are really putting a dent in that plan, I'm sure, but the recent Youtube and Play stuff are making it look like an inevitability rather than wild fantasy. Google+ is what happens when you take a company public, and suddenly find yourself having to do immensely dumb things to make your investors happy in the short term. The final insult being the brain-dead "real name" policy they have on G+ accounts. Schyfis said: I never linked my Youtube and Google+ accounts, and I can still post on Youtube using my old account. Even though the interface is slightly different, I'm not experiencing the problem... I haven't either, but every time I log in I get the old "are you suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure you don't want to swap over to a G+ account and make a bunch of other changes?" dialog, and it's getting less obvious as to how to avoid that. The only way I could avoid the change was X'ing out of the dialog box. Not cool. --> |
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bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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It is probably taking them some time to release. They can't just flip a switch. The system is on a global scale. There are countless millions of machines spread out all over the planet cooperating. And they can't bring the whole thing offline to update. They have to update mostly live, only taking down tiny pieces at a time if at all necessary. -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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Have I mentioned I love Google? The Nexus 7 is so nice. |
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bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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The comments on YouTube seem more spammy than ever... -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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I don't know what you were seeing on youtube, but nothing can possibly be worse than yotube's old comments. NOTHING. -- |
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MiquelFire
Member #3,110
January 2003
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Well... {"name":"608077","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/7\/5\/75ecacee53497e9c4060f30cb8298f30.png","w":591,"h":352,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/7\/5\/75ecacee53497e9c4060f30cb8298f30"} --- |
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LennyLen
Member #5,313
December 2004
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Thomas Fjellstrom said: I don't know what you were seeing on youtube, but nothing can possibly be worse than yotube's old comments. NOTHING. I guess you don't read IMDB boards?
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Kris Asick
Member #1,424
July 2001
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Actually, much to my surprise, comments on my stuff on YouTube so far (for what little time I've been using the service for) haven't been all that bad. There've been a handful of lame comments, but most of those were down-voted out of existence. I was fully expecting all kinds of stupid comments and that I would have to pretty much ignore them and was pleasantly surprised that it didn't turn out that way. ...and now that YouTube's made it so much harder to track the comments, it's probably gonna seem like I'm ignoring them now. --- Kris Asick (Gemini) |
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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bamccaig said: The comments on YouTube seem more spammy than ever... I don't get email except some special offers now and then because I downloaded some free crap, except now half the stuff is email spam from YouTube and I can't figure out how to complain about it. They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Hm. I'm not getting spam from youtube. And I'm hoping some of the current spammyness of youtube goes away. A lot of it seems to be 12 year olds playing with the new features like unicode support and ascii art, etc. It should eventually get boring to some/most of them. Then they'll go back to commenting about how u suk and they are 4w3s0m3. -- |
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bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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Thomas Fjellstrom said: And I'm hoping some of the current spammyness of youtube goes away. A lot of it seems to be 12 year olds playing with the new features like unicode support and ascii art, etc. It should eventually get boring to some/most of them. Then they'll go back to commenting about how u suk and they are 4w3s0m3. Oh, hello. You must be new to the Internet. Welcome. -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
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Trezker
Member #1,739
December 2001
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Hey, the "first" comments disappeared after years of that shit. |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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First comments get down voted and marked as spam nearly right away. That used to be all manual user action. Now the comment system will be sorting and filtering comments automatically. -- |
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jhuuskon
Member #302
April 2000
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TL;DR version of this thread: Folks are wildly furious after services we use for free had changes to them made so the party operating said services could try to make a buck or two. What an outrage. Profit, for god's sake. You don't deserve my sig. |
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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jhuuskon said: services could try to make a buck or two. They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
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weapon_S
Member #7,859
October 2006
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*adjusts tinfoil hat* Welcome to the club! I have been (trying to) avoiding Google for years. I use DuckDuckGo now. I've never been fond of video's in flash, because of the horrible performance. HTML5 barely improves on that. References
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Kris Asick
Member #1,424
July 2001
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jhuuskon said: TL;DR version of this thread: Folks are wildly furious after services we use for free had changes to them made so the party operating said services could try to make a buck or two. What an outrage. Profit, for god's sake. No, the TL;DR version of this thread is: Folks are wildly furious after services we use for free had changes made to them that make using the service far more difficult than it needs to be, while in the process, forcing people to sign up for and use more services provided by the party who made them in order to continue using the services they're already using. Honestly, I don't see how Google+ makes them more money than they already make from the ads they show. If anything, Google+ is far less riddled with ads than everything else Google does. --- Kris Asick (Gemini) |
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Elias
Member #358
May 2000
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They just want to be competitive with fb I guess... and the only way for that would be if they could count every YouTube user and every gmail user as a G+ user. -- |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Social Media is a great source of information for advertisers. Add the social stuff to the data google already collects? they'll be able to target things even better, and sell more data to companies. -- |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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I think I may make it a requirement to sign into a.cc with Google+. |
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Dizzy Egg
Member #10,824
March 2009
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I really don't give a shit what you do, so long as I get my $12.68.
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It's like moving Facebook to the comment section of YouTube...
