Google is at it again! Google Moves Forward With Using Profile Information in Ads
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Not surprisingly. Those terms of service contracts are unreadable and realistically they could add anything and get away with it. No one will leave Youtube over it.
[QUOTE=commandhat;42844616]if you haven't commented on youtube yet (which I doubt), you can fix this with a special procedure I accidentally found.
-Make a google+ profile
-Add your YouTube username (not real name, username) as an alternate name
-Log into youtube as the username you just added
-Comment, click "no" to "I want to convert my youtube profile to google+"
Google will then offer to create a special Google+ page with your youtube username. Now, whenever you use youtube (or any related google+ services), as long as you're signed in on youtube, you get automatically signed in as your youtube's google+ instead of your actual google+ profile.
What this will do is since you're already signed into google+ as "commandhat", which google have no information on, all advertisement partners will see, is your name is "commandhat". Not "John Williams who lives at -45 xxxxxx drive", just "commandhat".[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure it does that automatically, I'm able to comment via Google+ that has the same name as my channel.
[QUOTE=be;42844780]Pretty sure it does that automatically, I'm able to comment via Google+ that has the same name as my channel.[/QUOTE]
When they first started converting accounts, the first thing Youtube offered me was the ability to create a page on G+ for my account (and optionally link it). G+ integration has never been hard to use for Youtube, a bit clumsy at times sure, but it's been relatively straightforward. You can still stay anonymous, Youtube still works exactly the same as it [B]needs[/B] to work to be a video sharing site. They are just trying to integrate their services more leading to a more usable ecosystem of products.
[quote]Comments- oh no I can't shitpost in comments anymore[/quote]
Do you live under a rock or something
Shitposting has increased by like a million percent and is a thousand times more volatile with ascii drawings of dicks, pages of NSFW MLP fanfiction, "expand this comment" linking to screamers, viruses, etc. If the point of the new comment system was to stop "shitposting" then they could not POSSIBLY have fucked up any harder.
[QUOTE=catbarf;42842848]That's only one example they're giving. What about comments you post in regards to a service like they mention, or [URL="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/"]other information Google collects[/URL]? Are you comfortable with Google telling your friends where you've been (from GPS data), or what you've been searching for, or who you've been calling, and using it to advertise a service? All of that is compliant with their ToS and privacy policy.
Google collects a lot of data about its users and now they're starting to be more obvious about how they use it for commercial purposes. It can only go downhill from here.[/QUOTE]
then shut off the stuff you don't want.
it's not hard.
i trust google with the info i give it. it's literally the only company i trust with information.
[QUOTE=Wii60;42845902]then shut off the stuff you don't want.
it's not hard.
i trust google with the info i give it. it's literally the only company i trust with information.[/QUOTE]
I can trust Google with my GPS data for the purpose of finding my position on a map. That doesn't mean I'm okay with them using my GPS data to plot where I've been and then go tell that to people I sorta know for the sake of advertising.
Sure, I can just stop using Google's products. But that doesn't make the policy good or intrinsically acceptable, it means I don't consent to it. Just as you can stop using air travel any time you like, but that hardly justifies TSA practices.
I hate how they make my name public and shit and I can't do anything but stop using gmail because of it.
Eat shit google.
[QUOTE=Sir_takeslot;42847302]I hate how they make my name public and shit and I can't do anything but stop using gmail because of it.
Eat shit google.[/QUOTE]
Because Hetsu Procyon is my real name, or at least Google thinks that.
So much for "don't be evil".
Better that Google do it than apple
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;42842062]Whoever said before "I would gladly accept my google overlords."
Do you still think that now?
Yes you can turn it off but I wonder what next shit google will pull. Betting pool anyone?[/QUOTE]
Hey if Google brings 1gb/s with no bandwidth cap at half the price I currently pay for my 20up/5down 250gb a month shit that disconnects every time I download a file to my city, I'll suck their dick. This is only optional anyway so it's cool. The Youtube and Google+ thing is some stupid bullshit that I expect will be sorted soon enough
[QUOTE=Helix Snake;42844999]Do you live under a rock or something
Shitposting has increased by like a million percent and is a thousand times more volatile with ascii drawings of dicks, pages of NSFW MLP fanfiction, "expand this comment" linking to screamers, viruses, etc. If the point of the new comment system was to stop "shitposting" then they could not POSSIBLY have fucked up any harder.[/QUOTE]
I once saw someone post the entire script of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
[QUOTE=Rellow;42850869][img]http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BF-AF988_GOOGLE_G_20131011180016.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
this x1000 times
the only people who see it are people who already see content you post on google plus anyways
Facebook already does this, it's nothing new. The only people who are going to see these ads are your friends (circles) in Google+.
[QUOTE=catbarf;42846791]That doesn't mean I'm okay with them using my GPS data to plot where I've been and then go tell that to people I sorta know for the sake of advertising.[/QUOTE]
That's not what this is at all. All google is doing is prioritizing your reviews of things next to ads that your google+ friends see. If you don't review things using your google+ account, or have google+ friends, this won't affect you at all. And if you're still worried about it, it's a single checkbox to disable it.
FUCK this going to bing my only true savior from the dark hands of google
The opt out approach is chicken shit.
I feel the onus for securing rights to use someone's likeness and such should be on the bastard trying to use it. Take 5 god damned min to write an email asking.
Or just do it because mass internet usage changed everything.. even common sense, lol.
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