youtube google account verification

scrabface · #1 03-13-2011, 06:17 PM

WTH is this shit? I don't want to verify my youtube account by linking it with a google account. not sure if this is worth a new thread, but I don't like where this is going. I am still resisting facebook and co, but on the other hand I am using blogspot...

Daxter King · #2 03-13-2011, 06:27 PM

Make a free gmail, only ever use it for Youtube.

Done.

scrabface · #3 03-13-2011, 06:44 PM

right... only they want to verify the google account by sending me a code to my mobile phone LOL

Mac Sirloin · #4 03-13-2011, 06:47 PM

I did this an incredibly long time ago. It was easy, and has not provided any problems. Get the fuck over it.

Wings of Fire · #5 03-13-2011, 06:55 PM

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I did this an incredibly long time ago. It was easy, and has not provided any problems. Get the fuck over it.

This.

Phylum · #6 03-13-2011, 07:09 PM

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This.

Mac Sirloin · #7 03-13-2011, 08:50 PM

Oh, it did motivate me to get a Gmail account, though. Which has helped me get jobs as it's simpler and more mature name.

***Nate*** · #8 03-13-2011, 11:08 PM

It's no different to the fact that my gmail login is the same as my account for Google Calendar and Google chat. Now they're just integrating one more of Google's services.

DarkHoodness · #9 03-13-2011, 11:27 PM

CONFORM.

Havoc · #10 03-14-2011, 12:51 AM

I love Google and the integration it brings. Oh god I just realized I am to Google what Apple fanbois are to Apple. Dear jezus.

Manco · #11 03-14-2011, 02:18 AM

Just looking at the Account Creation form, it doesn't look like you need to verify your account. Is it an optional thing? If so, why do you want to do it?

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but on the other hand I am using blogspot...

You could use Tumblr instead.

Havoc · #12 03-14-2011, 02:55 AM

Verifying your account makes the process of getting back into your account after losing your PW or something easier.

STM · #13 03-14-2011, 09:50 AM

I think that this youtube/ google thing is a grim analogy of human conforming. We have no power to stop this internet mega corporation from doing this merger. We must simply lower our heads and stop contemplating another freedom of choice we have lost.

Ahahahahaha. No.

Havoc · #14 03-14-2011, 11:10 AM

Really? No one is forcing you to use anything that Google offers except maybe it's search engine and even those are alternatives for. So stop bitching.

Manco · #15 03-14-2011, 12:31 PM

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Verifying your account makes the process of getting back into your account after losing your PW or something easier.

Ah, gotcha. I've never really worried about password recovery, so I didn't think much about the subject.

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Really? No one is forcing you to use anything that Google offers except maybe it's search engine and even those are alternatives for. So stop bitching.

Yeah, I'm hardly a fan of Google, but going on about them taking over the Internet and us having no choice is absolute bullshit. Nearly every single Google service has dozens of alternatives and competitors, so complaining about "another freedom of choice we have lost" is completely retarded.

Disgruntled Intern · #16 03-14-2011, 12:34 PM

Some part of me thinks that people from youtube will be able to get to my blogspot from my youtube account if I do the google link, and I don't like that.

Also, I don't use gmail. I prefer gmx.

Mr. Bungle · #17 03-14-2011, 12:42 PM

I've been asked to verify my account with gmail or whatever it is you're whining about a few times, but I've never actually done it. I just see it as a waste of time, really.

They haven't asked me to do so in a while, either.

Disgruntled Intern · #18 03-14-2011, 12:49 PM

I can't even comment or watch 'mature' videos on youtube without signing in at this point, and I can't sign in without linking. Bitches.

Mac Sirloin · #19 03-14-2011, 12:58 PM

Hasn't connected to my Blogspot account in any discernible form.

MA · #20 03-14-2011, 03:21 PM

this shit popped up with me a few days ago. i have no fucking idea what i did, but somehow i managed to verify my account with Hotmail again. i know for a fact that i don't have a Gmail account. but i was inebriated at the time, so what i did was most likely something obvious/simple.

scrabface · #21 03-16-2011, 02:25 PM

I .. I did it!! I feel strange ... around my heart ... and my braiiin. also my butthole's burning. why is that so?

***Wil*** · #22 03-16-2011, 02:30 PM

I did this a long time ago. It was annoying, but only because it made it temporarily slower to access videos. YouTube is Google anyway, it makes perfect sense.

Chubfish · #23 03-16-2011, 03:32 PM

Stupid, but yes it makes sense.

Doing this recently reminds me how long they tried to push it on users (4 + years now probably).

Crashpunk · #24 03-19-2011, 05:27 AM

I did it when Google just broght YouTube, It used to ask me every time I logged in.

T-nex · #25 03-19-2011, 05:55 AM

I have no idea what this phone verification is. I didnt have to do any phone verification when I got my gmail account.

I also willingly linked my gmail to my youtube x_x Makes it all the more easy... for me I suppose.

But there should be a choice.

Actually google is starting to scare me. They do provide some good things but..... They are kind of nearing a monopoly. That really shouldn't happen.

Im hoping a new company will come and provide equally good service or better! Competition is good.

Wings of Fire · #26 03-19-2011, 06:23 AM

Google/Youtube do not have a monopoly on streaming sites by any stretch of the imagination.

T-nex · #27 03-19-2011, 11:37 AM

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Google/Youtube do not have a monopoly on streaming sites by any stretch of the imagination.

No, but they have the potential, cos I dont see any other companies really being much of a competition to them.

Oh well... I like google.. And what they have to offer.

Havoc · #28 03-19-2011, 12:11 PM

Just because Youtube is the biggest site doesn't mean it's the only site.

T-nex · #29 03-19-2011, 12:16 PM

Omg really? I wouldn't have guessed.

Havoc · #30 03-19-2011, 01:32 PM

That's why I spelled it out for you. You're welcome.