Youtube block users unless they link with google account

[bledd]

I like the whole 'Google taking over the world' thing

 

[BigglesPiP]

I can't log in to my YouTube account to link it with my google account because my YouTube account matches a google account which doesn't exist any more, and it thinks I'm trying to log in to that, which fails.

Hey google; got an opening for a test manager?

 

[guyfawkes5]

Maybe he'll not lose mine.

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It will be your loss and not ours. /sarcastic

'Cover your ass' fail.

 

[Angilion]

It was about 10 seconds of annoyance for me, what's the problem exactly once you've linked?

Some people are displeased about Google gathering information on every video they watch on Youtube forever, with no restrictions on what they use that data for, and the ever-increasing breadth of the data Google hold on people and cross-reference.

There is a genuine privacy issue. It's not just paranoia.

 

[Jonny69]

I don't really want to link my Yahoo email account with Youtube. My email is none of their business.

It lets me sign in anyway

 

[robgmun]

Do i really want to have yet ANOTHER email account? I don't

 

[Kenai]

Some people are displeased about Google gathering information on every video they watch on Youtube forever

Those people should probably have just stopped using it when Google bought YouTube then really.

 

[Cosimo]

I like the whole 'Google taking over the world' thing

One must show repect for Empire.

 

[Edrof]

I have a gmail account, I refuse to link the two together out of principle though, or am I just mad that I am being force to do something?!

I don't like it either, and I don't really see the point.

 

[Sp00n]

I had never linked them up until this point but I've done it now seeing as I have to :/

 

[Casdawer]

TBH if you don't have a GMAIL account by now, your doing the internet wrong.

Other email providers are rubbish and GMAIL gives me loads of space which is impossible to fill which other providers don't.

I don't mind the 2 places being intergrated, Google owns YouTube so it makes sense - saves me remembering two logins.

 

[Sp00n]

TBH if you don't have a GMAIL account by now, your doing the internet wrong.

Other email providers are rubbish and GMAIL gives me loads of space which is impossible to fill which other providers don't.

I don't mind the 2 places being intergrated, Google owns YouTube so it makes sense - saves me remembering two logins.

lolwut?

I only signed up for the gmail because I had to, I don't actually use it.

 

[Cleeecooo]

lolwut?

I only signed up for the gmail because I had to, I don't actually use it.

I have an email account with all the major ones but i use GMX the most because it's short to type!!!

 

[LordSplodge]

Didn't really like having to link a gmail account with Android so just signed up for another.

What? Seriously?

 

[TwsT]

youtube account is a gmail account or at least i've always logged in with my gmail account and the other way round. I just assumed this was normal.

 

[Dirk]

I don't see what the problem is.

Personally i welcome our new cloud based overlords.

 

[Wicksta]

I don't really want to link my Yahoo email account with Youtube. My email is none of their business.

It lets me sign in anyway

They aren't asking you to link to your Yahoo mail, they are just consolidating YouTube/Google accounts which makes complete sense as Google own YouTube now.

 

[ianh]

They aren't asking you to link to your Yahoo mail, they are just consolidating YouTube/Google accounts which makes complete sense as Google own YouTube now.

It'll accept Yahoo addresses too if you want to link one.

 

[Anim]

I just wish google would hurry up and acquire a lot more services online, and then steam can pick up everything gaming-related and my online life will become a whole lot simpler.

 

[HungryHippos]

I agree with the OP, it's a pain having to sign up for a gmail account just so you can login to youtube, I don't want or need a gmail account.