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Anonymous Coward User ID: 37101700 United States 03/29/2013 07:06 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Only to find that I *simply must* give my phone number and receive a call from Google if I ever want to be able to use my YouTube account again... Quoting: Mister Obvious Well guess what YouTube... I couldn't fucking care less, and furthermore, I will have no need for a YouTube account again at any point in the future. Go fuck yourselves real deep and hard and think of me. IF YOU ARE TRINITY, THEN START YOUR OWN VIDEO SITE, AND STRUCTURE LIKE YOU TUBE. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 34371275 United States 03/29/2013 07:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Telephone prevents DOS attacks by the way of registration, same for account recovery. For instance, say I get into your email account at hotmail or yahoo (how? Who cares, you left the page open or something). Lets say you have accounts @ google and I want to access those but I do not have your password. I go to an account recovery page and use your email to send all your google accounts to hotmail or yahoo. Then I reset your passwords to something simple so I can start taking your *stuff*. Not only that, I can after a while gain access to nearly every account you own. Enter phone verification. I'd have to have your cell or land-line in front of me to gain the same access. Phones also help prevent false registrations. Fake emails are easy to create whereas fake phone #s aren't if you have to verify the #. If I had a bot or script banging away at a registration system without this protection, I could register thousands of people (or fake ppl) and use up all the usernames available (well, just the ones that make sense). I would have effectively halted registration, at least for a period of time (generally a week but many sites don't have a way to clear those out quickly (such as a crone job) and manually have to do it). Phones aren't the only way to secure these but quick and easy, especially if your already using such a service for account recovery. This doesn't prevent any service provider from using your # for other purposes. Always make sure to read the privacy policies (and terms, things can get intermingled). |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1696823 United States 03/29/2013 07:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 31702961 Mexico 03/29/2013 07:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Only to find that I *simply must* give my phone number and receive a call from Google if I ever want to be able to use my YouTube account again... Quoting: Mister Obvious Well guess what YouTube... I couldn't fucking care less, and furthermore, I will have no need for a YouTube account again at any point in the future. Go fuck yourselves real deep and hard and think of me. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 26130402 United States 03/29/2013 07:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Okay so from that link I pasted... Quoting: Mister Obvious I did their stupid "give us another email address" thingy, then answered a few questions... 1. What is my password 2. When was the last time I was able to log into my account 3. When did I create my account All my answers were right, but I kinda guessed the third one and still let me in... Now I'm on a page where it's displaying "Account recovery options" and from here I can add a phone number, email addresses, etc. And now I am also successfully logged into YouTube. Interesting... So this is how you get around giving them your phone number folks... FOR NOW. Someone is flagging your youtube acct! It happened to me and when I didn't act fast enough, the acct was gone! I've never gotten it back either! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 31702961 Mexico 03/29/2013 07:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Only to find that I *simply must* give my phone number and receive a call from Google if I ever want to be able to use my YouTube account again... Quoting: Mister Obvious Well guess what YouTube... I couldn't fucking care less, and furthermore, I will have no need for a YouTube account again at any point in the future. Go fuck yourselves real deep and hard and think of me. THEIR OTHER SITES BESIDES YOU TUBE. THEIR WILL SOON LOSE MEMBERS AND THEIR SITE WILL BECOME STALE. IT IS A DEATH BLOW TO THEM. I doubt it. There are way more stupid people than smart ones. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 31702961 Mexico 03/29/2013 07:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What do you need a You tube Account. I go and watch what I want the same way I come to GLP. I see no use to have an account for anybody to control me. If I get banned, I come in anytime I please and refresh as many times as I please. I am a free man, and I will always remain one. Fuck You Tube and fuck ALL registrations. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 37101700 United States 03/29/2013 07:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What do you need a You tube Account. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31702961 I go and watch what I want the same way I come to GLP. I see no use to have an account for anybody to control me. If I get banned, I come in anytime I please and refresh as many times as I please. I am a free man, and I will always remain one. Fuck You Tube and fuck ALL registrations. YOU MAY BE FREE, BUT IGNORANT. THE VIDEOS YOU WATCH WERE PUT UP BY SOME ONE WITH AN ACCOUNT. AND AS MORE PEOPLE CLOSE THEIR ACCOUNTS, THE AVAILABLE NEW VIDEOS BECOMES LESS AND LESS. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 37096245 United States 03/29/2013 07:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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Vision Thing User ID: 36175629 United States 03/29/2013 08:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The cool thing is, the more regulated the interwebz becomes, the further underground I go. Quoting: R.P. McMurphy I did a Bing search of my name... and I'm clean as a whistle because I HAVE NEVER USED MY REAL NAME FOR ANY OF THESE ACCOUNTS. These info-miners can mine somebody else's info. Something that sucks is that if you are applying for jobs, a prospective employer will search on your name and if nothing comes up, that counts against you. I am getting increasingly creeped out by all this and increasingly resistant . . . |
R.P. McMurphy User ID: 34834122 United States 03/30/2013 03:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The cool thing is, the more regulated the interwebz becomes, the further underground I go. Quoting: R.P. McMurphy I did a Bing search of my name... and I'm clean as a whistle because I HAVE NEVER USED MY REAL NAME FOR ANY OF THESE ACCOUNTS. These info-miners can mine somebody else's info. Something that sucks is that if you are applying for jobs, a prospective employer will search on your name and if nothing comes up, that counts against you. I am getting increasingly creeped out by all this and increasingly resistant . . . Why would that count against you? My days of job hunting are pretty much over with anyway, but what makes you think that an employer would not hire you if you don't have a facebook or youtube account? "Moral of the story is I chose a half measure when I should have gone all the way. I'll never make that mistake again. ==== ESTJ-a (Executive) 93% Extroverted, 82% Observant, 83% Thinking, 82% Judging,72% Assertive ==== |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 37131931 United States 03/30/2013 03:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Only to find that I *simply must* give my phone number and receive a call from Google if I ever want to be able to use my YouTube account again... Quoting: Mister Obvious Well guess what YouTube... I couldn't fucking care less, and furthermore, I will have no need for a YouTube account again at any point in the future. Go fuck yourselves real deep and hard and think of me. You must have a big weiner. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 33283057 United States 03/30/2013 10:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I recall reading the contract when they had us yt-ers go to the new google system. It actually says they own all our vids and may reproduce, redistribute, delete, archive, etc. and also edit our content. Edit is what got me, they can edit our words and image and in 5 years we are on the news saying some dumb shit. I am aware of it but so far not to worried. It is something to consider. Good luck to all real people here, whoever is left. |
grimmlord User ID: 33815406 United States 03/31/2013 05:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i find it hilarious that such a small annoyance from google/youtube gets MO's panties in a lather . but much anger i sense in MO . the dark side is strong with her ... register an account first and then chat with grimmlord on spam.com/spam tard |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 47088118 Canada 09/19/2013 09:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Youtube is making it more difficult to share content From the recent change to the interface No more reply videos Comments with Safe Mod On which means you can't read comments unless you sign in or turn it off Now this bullshit Vimeo, Dailymotion looking good right about now |
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