Youtube: real name now the only option

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For awhile, you had the option to display only your username on Youtube. Now it seems that your real name, as set on your Google+ account, will be visible to other Youtube users. The option to use your username has disappeared.

http://i.imgur.com/90DUvFD.png

Also, it appears that your real name is fixed as "public" on Google+ and cannot be set to "circles only".

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It seems the way to fix comments is to alienate more than half of your userbase. Vimeo here we come.

Every time you see a YouTube video embedded on a site, contact the owner and ask them to change it to Vimeo. Give whatever justification you want, such as Google's real name policy. Just make sure that they know their audience doesn't want Youtube. Retweet their stuff if they switch.

Instead of bitching about YouTube, we should start a giant campaign to get people to migrate and create the tools to make it easy.

Yes, its only a option, while you can use community or business name

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