Youtube now asking people to sign in with their full first and last name!!??? WTF | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 26814882 United States 11/05/2012 11:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
TheTruthNeverLies User ID: 22521718 United States 11/05/2012 11:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I logged onto my Youtube account this morning and got this notice: Quoting: Laura Bow Get a better name on YouTube Replace your hard-to-read username, and start using the name people know you by. You can still use your username to sign in, and links to your channel will not change. Your full name Then had a box for both first and last name. I had to jump through hoops and decline...I couldn't paste all of the stuff that it showed. Thanks for your feedback. Learn more about using your full name on YouTube and update at any time. What's interesting is that my username is actually nothing weird at all, it's a first name with initials...SO....anyone else get this notice recently? youtube is owned by google, they want everyone in a data base to create a profile of you. "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." "Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society." -George Washington, Father of our country & 1st President |
Laura Bow (OP) User ID: 1158661 United States 11/05/2012 11:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Laura Bow (OP) User ID: 1158661 United States 11/05/2012 11:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I logged onto my Youtube account this morning and got this notice: Quoting: Laura Bow Get a better name on YouTube Replace your hard-to-read username, and start using the name people know you by. You can still use your username to sign in, and links to your channel will not change. Your full name Then had a box for both first and last name. I had to jump through hoops and decline...I couldn't paste all of the stuff that it showed. Thanks for your feedback. Learn more about using your full name on YouTube and update at any time. What's interesting is that my username is actually nothing weird at all, it's a first name with initials...SO....anyone else get this notice recently? youtube is owned by google, they want everyone in a data base to create a profile of you. Yes, you have to have a Google account in order to sign in now...but thought it's interesting that they're kicking it up a notch. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1135376 United States 11/05/2012 11:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Laura Bow (OP) User ID: 1158661 United States 11/05/2012 11:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 26142676 United States 11/05/2012 11:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Laura Bow (OP) User ID: 1158661 United States 11/05/2012 11:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27053317 Germany 11/05/2012 12:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward 11/05/2012 12:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Looks like they really are activating the kill switch Thread: Is Youtube preparing to activate the killswitch and cull the trolls? |
Laura Bow (OP) User ID: 1158661 United States 11/05/2012 12:51 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Looks like they really are activating the kill switch Quoting: Wonkish Thread: Is Youtube preparing to activate the killswitch and cull the trolls? WOW!! Interesting... |
Laura Bow (OP) User ID: 1158661 United States 11/05/2012 12:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Could it have something to do with this? S6779-2011: Provides that a web site administrator shall remove any comments posted upon request unless the poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post [link to open.nysenate.gov] Wasn't there some sort of internet UN meeting this week or relatively soon? Have to wonder if that could be one of the reasons as well... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27058608 Romania 11/05/2012 12:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Laura Bow (OP) User ID: 1158661 United States 11/05/2012 01:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | good ideas, how about delete account? Well I'm not really interested in doing that just yet, because the tradeoff then wouldn't be sharing videos with family members but as of now the name thing isn't mandatory either. |
WAKEUPAMERICA01 User ID: 26665900 United States 11/05/2012 02:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | tried to sign in the other night and got the message. i tried to opt out then youtube froze up. WAKE UP AMERICA "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 1, December 19, 1776 "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it." Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 4, September 11, 1777 "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs." -- Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President. "A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years, [79 years now in 2012] freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have in varying degrees been abridged by laws brought into force by statutes of national emergency." |
Laura Bow (OP) User ID: 1158661 United States 11/05/2012 02:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 4436859 United States 11/05/2012 02:44 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | First it is not required, it is just a question that can be declined or acted upon later. If a video is put up, the person putting up the video can approve comments, let all comments be as they are, or have no comments. It is not up to Google, or UTube, but according to what the uploader wants. And yes, some of that will depend on copyrights because that is what it is! Plus fact that with certain videos (or all I do not know) they may dish out some money if enough different people watch it. Since a person can sign up for the monetary policy, I think they are cutting down on the cheating that happened before with the same people hitting the video just to up the count, now it is different people for counts to the video put up. So, read the darn lines instead of assuming! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 6673466 United States 11/05/2012 02:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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Laura Bow (OP) User ID: 1158661 United States 11/05/2012 02:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | First it is not required, it is just a question that can be declined or acted upon later. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 4436859 If a video is put up, the person putting up the video can approve comments, let all comments be as they are, or have no comments. It is not up to Google, or UTube, but according to what the uploader wants. And yes, some of that will depend on copyrights because that is what it is! Plus fact that with certain videos (or all I do not know) they may dish out some money if enough different people watch it. Since a person can sign up for the monetary policy, I think they are cutting down on the cheating that happened before with the same people hitting the video just to up the count, now it is different people for counts to the video put up. So, read the darn lines instead of assuming! It looks like you can't read...where did anyone say it was required? Certainly not me because I said I was able to decline. All I did was attempt to log into my account and, from original post: Then had a box for both first and last name. I had to jump through hoops and decline...I couldn't paste all of the stuff that it showed. |
Laura Bow (OP) User ID: 1158661 United States 11/05/2012 02:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 4436859 United States 11/05/2012 02:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
EJ25LVR User ID: 514219 United States 11/05/2012 02:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i saw this also, i just bypassed it. they don't need to know shit. Wherever you go,there you are. John Doe: Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention. I have half a mind to head down to Washington and shit on the White House lawn. Brick Top: Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible cunt... me. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27072433 United States 11/05/2012 03:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wow. The fucked up part is the underlying information that they're getting from you should you decide to choose no thanks. Even if you choose to decide later, that shows that you are paranoid about your personal privacy and we all know what that means to the DHS. Even the other choices glean information. No matter what you choose. Stay away from that shit! |
Laura Bow (OP) User ID: 1158661 United States 11/05/2012 03:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wow. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27072433 The fucked up part is the underlying information that they're getting from you should you decide to choose no thanks. Even if you choose to decide later, that shows that you are paranoid about your personal privacy and we all know what that means to the DHS. Even the other choices glean information. No matter what you choose. Stay away from that shit! LOL I never thought about it that way...oh well...maybe they're flagging those that aren't putting in their full names immediately? How ironic. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27072433 United States 11/05/2012 03:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Wow. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27072433 The fucked up part is the underlying information that they're getting from you should you decide to choose no thanks. Even if you choose to decide later, that shows that you are paranoid about your personal privacy and we all know what that means to the DHS. Even the other choices glean information. No matter what you choose. Stay away from that shit! LOL I never thought about it that way...oh well...maybe they're flagging those that aren't putting in their full names immediately? How ironic. Absolutely. That whole thing is designed to gather information on the ones that choose no thanks, because then they ask you WHY. |
071676 User ID: 26630358 United States 11/05/2012 04:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I logged onto my Youtube account this morning and got this notice: Quoting: Laura Bow Get a better name on YouTube Replace your hard-to-read username, and start using the name people know you by. You can still use your username to sign in, and links to your channel will not change. Your full name Then had a box for both first and last name. I had to jump through hoops and decline...I couldn't paste all of the stuff that it showed. Thanks for your feedback. Learn more about using your full name on YouTube and update at any time. What's interesting is that my username is actually nothing weird at all, it's a first name with initials...SO....anyone else get this notice recently? yes, I put my name down as Foch Hu. |
Laura Bow (OP) User ID: 1158661 United States 11/05/2012 05:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I logged onto my Youtube account this morning and got this notice: Quoting: Laura Bow Get a better name on YouTube Replace your hard-to-read username, and start using the name people know you by. You can still use your username to sign in, and links to your channel will not change. Your full name Then had a box for both first and last name. I had to jump through hoops and decline...I couldn't paste all of the stuff that it showed. Thanks for your feedback. Learn more about using your full name on YouTube and update at any time. What's interesting is that my username is actually nothing weird at all, it's a first name with initials...SO....anyone else get this notice recently? yes, I put my name down as Foch Hu. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27081214 United Kingdom 11/05/2012 05:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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