• Youtube co-founder: "Why the fuck do I need a Google+ account to comment on a video?"
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[QUOTE=AaronM202;42820831]I never said i dont think theres a chance. But automatically assuming it has to be hacker is just stupid.[/QUOTE]Its frankly more likely his account was compromised than not. He has never used it except for the first video. He has had no interactions with the site whatsoever since selling it off. He makes no comments to the public about anything that happens with it or really anything else. He's a 35 year old millionaire who runs a venture capital firm. No one can even get in touch with him to actually get a confirmation or anything. Why would someone who genuinely seems to want nothing to do with the site whatsoever now that he has moved on to other projects suddenly return just to make a single "why the fuck..." comment? He's someone who is in the middle of a very professional life, why would he make what is actually a rather infantile comment? I'm desperately hoping, hoping beyond hope, that at some point these pieces will start falling in to place for you. Everyone here [I]knows[/I] that this is the kind of shit troll hackers love to do. This is their exact MO. These are the scenarios they feed off of. The guy hardly even exists on the internet. He doesn't use any social media, certainly not under his name if he does. No Facebook, No Twitter, No LinkedIn. The only place he exists is his venture capital firm's website, and even then there are no details to contact him personally. It seems be all accounts that he is someone who doesn't want to be in the public eye and doesn't want unnecessary attention brought to himself. The entire thing is just so massively uncharacteristic.
Gotta say no update so far has been so terrible that creators started disabling comments and outsourcing them to reddit because they're sick of going the inconvenient way into the G+ inbox only to find out 2/3 of all comments have been blocked and the top ones are dick ASCII, Braveheart dumps and tons and tons of malicious links inbetween confused exchanges between YouTube commentators and G+ commentators only following half the discussion each. Some people like NerdCubed have even started preparing for the end times and set up mirrors and independent websites because YouTube has increasingly become a hindrance between unsupervised copyright takedowns, terrible channel & frontpage layouts and now the comments section. There's some good ideas in there somewhere, but there's no reason to believe the execution will get any less horrible in the future - and there's only so much 3rd party support can fix. That said, I doubt anything's gonna change until viable YouTube competitor magically appears. Right now Google can do whatever benefits them instead of what benefits the users because of their pretty-much-uncontested presence.
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