Just come to use my YouTube account and it's moaning about passwords, I seem to get this when switching between PC and iPad, maybe it signs me out occasionally.
Anyway, try to sign in with what I think is my password, but it is not having it.
Try to reset the password, but as I'm going through the process I notice in very small print that it will not allow me to reuse any old password
Now this is a killer for me, I like using the same password on these low level accounts because I don't want to remember different ones and it's pretty secure anyway (secret123). Either way it's my account and it contains nothing important.
Google thinks differently, it assumes I may have been compromised and that by reusing passwords it puts them at risk of spammers.
Now banning password reuse for corporate networks is sensible, it is their data not yours. But putting restrictions on my YouTube account is pretty OTT and very annoying.
Two options (because I'm dammed if I'm changing my password, so up yours googlenazis)
Recycle the password 100 times using a script (which is the cool way)
Make a new YouTube account and copy the lolcat subscriptions over.
Anyone agree with Google that the corporate way of doing things should also apply to people's junk mail accounts?
Anyway, try to sign in with what I think is my password, but it is not having it.
Try to reset the password, but as I'm going through the process I notice in very small print that it will not allow me to reuse any old password
Now this is a killer for me, I like using the same password on these low level accounts because I don't want to remember different ones and it's pretty secure anyway (secret123). Either way it's my account and it contains nothing important.
Google thinks differently, it assumes I may have been compromised and that by reusing passwords it puts them at risk of spammers.
Now banning password reuse for corporate networks is sensible, it is their data not yours. But putting restrictions on my YouTube account is pretty OTT and very annoying.
Two options (because I'm dammed if I'm changing my password, so up yours googlenazis)
Recycle the password 100 times using a script (which is the cool way)
Make a new YouTube account and copy the lolcat subscriptions over.
Anyone agree with Google that the corporate way of doing things should also apply to people's junk mail accounts?
