Banana72 shared a YouTube video with you...? What the hell?
Banana72...? Oh, right, on YouTube VikingCoder is called Banana72.
I think you're asking for a feature which would confuse the hell out of most users.
Banana72...? Oh, right, on YouTube VikingCoder is called Banana72.
I think you're asking for a feature which would confuse the hell out of most users.
I managed to find a decent looking study that somewhat supports my position [1]. Here's an interesting quote from the abstract:
"many (40%) were hesitant to consent to the release of their personal profile information; and (6) many (36%) ex- pressed concern with the use of SSO on websites that contain valuable personal information or, conversely, are not trust- worthy. We also found that with an improved affordance and privacy control, more than 60% of study participants would use Web SSO solutions on the websites they trust."
[1] https://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2011/proceedings/a4_Sun.pdf
This is a very important discussion -- I'd love to see some papers that study the benefits of a single login / profile, rather then the negatives.
How people say they will act, and how they act, are completely different animals.
I think he had a Group Youtube channel. He logged in using his individual account onto his Group Youtube channel and it linked his individual G+ to the group Youtube. When he unlinked this, it disable his Group Youtube.
I think this is pretty serious stuff. If youtube allows you to group individual accounts, then you dont want to link a group channel to an individual account. I think thats the concerns being raised here.
Ultimately, do you agree with the direction, and can you forgive them for the missteps?
I mean, how many times was "re-install Microsoft Windows, and all of your applications" the only option?
I get that it's painful for some people, and I don't mean to diminish that. But my God, this guy wasted an entire afternoon on configuring his free service.</sarcasm>
The OP is merely expressing what a lot of people are experiencing, and not just technical people. I know plenty of non-technical people who avoid mainstream Google because it's like "getting a passport" and "signing over your life" just to upload a video.
The user experience of being part of YouTube is crap. The barrier to entry is too heavily weighted towards "registration" and "validation" rather than just having fun and joining something fun.
Email is NOT related to Youtube, not by any stretch. So you get emamiled when someone posts a video? Wow, that really is lame. That notification could happen a million different ways, including an email to your Yahoo email address.
Google forces completely different services to be connected. It's no longer possible to rate a video out of 5 unless you have a Google+ account. It's no longer possible to have a Google+ account unless you provide Google your mobile phone number and access to all your contacts, etc etc.
Youtube was once a cool service for YOU, US. Now it's a service for "content partners" and YOU/WE are permitted to join in, provided that certain commercially motivated conditions are met. That's crap. It's like a movie cinema denying entry unless you wear a (free) t-shirt advertising their cinema. VikingCoder would say "hey, it's a free t-shirt, what are you complaining about". Well, I just want to watch a film, I do not want to be locked into the Cinema's desperate social media marketing eco-system.