It is currently Tue Mar 17, 2020 4:01 am

All times are UTC - 7 hours



Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 34 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2, 3  Next
Go to page 1, 2, 3  Next
Author Message
Post subject: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 7:44 am
Offline
Aspiring Musician
Aspiring Musician

Joined: Thu Dec 13, 2012 12:58 pm
Posts: 739
Google bought youtube a while back. Have those of you who use youtube noticed that google recently is trying to force--no, trick--you into joining "google +", google's social networking site that "competes" with facebook, et al.?

It is extremely rude and irritating. I don't do social media--not facebook or twitter. I (don't) do that on purpose. My youtube page (which some of you have seen) and this fender forum constitute the bulk of my online activities. I like it that way. I like music and youtube. I don't like or trust facebook or "google+" and it's a big time suck.

I know some of you are also on youtube. So you noticed they "upgraded" the page to force you to advertise their mainstream crap, such as Miley Cyrus's recent disgusting video. My old page was great...I had personalized it with a background showing the Black Keys.

Now they are "upgrading" it again and warning that they will force us to use the new thing like they did just 6 weeks ago. And they keep trying to make me "use my real name" and use google+.

Now they are making you "link your account to google+" just to leave a comment from a mobile phone!! This is new literally as of yesterday. In other words, they are literally bundling and removing one's ability to use certain longstanding youtube functions unless one agrees to join their facebook-like garbage.

I don't want google+, google, you piece of garbage selfish illuminati corporate hack. I want my plain old youtube and nothing else.

(Yes, I realize google does not have to make youtube available at all and it is a great thing for watching music stuff, but still......any of you who regularly use youtube and have your own channel that you pay attention to have to know what I'm talking about.

I call it "change for the sake of change" in the e-world industry. Youtube was just fine (and ran smoother) 5 years ago.

Edit: to further explain....about every few days google tries to trick you into linking to a google+ account and a few times it has actually gotten me to do this....and they don't even have their $@!& together on that end....they released a beta version with all sorts of bugs. When a google+ account is linked to my youtube account, it will no longer let me upload vids from my phone. I emailed google about this and of course got no response.

No, google, I don't want to use "google +" and I don't want to "use my real name." I want to use my "band name," which I don't hide...and that's that. It is my real name--the real name I want to have visible on youtube. Just like the black keys' page is the black keys..not Dan Auerbach. Duh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In short: google is trying to turn youtube into a "social media" thing like facebook.

If you use youtube and have a channel that you actually pay attention to, you know what I'm talking about.


Top
Profile
Fender Play Winter Sale 2020
Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 9:10 am
Offline
Aspiring Musician
Aspiring Musician
User avatar

Joined: Thu Mar 24, 2011 2:50 pm
Posts: 469
Location: TURKEY
Anything google is utter crap , they are stopping i google in november (one of their better ideas)
Anyone who works for them must take an oath to be a complete arsehole

_________________
Ted

"All right, guys, uh, listen. This is a blues riff in "B", watch me for the changes, and try and keep up, okay?"


Top
Profile
Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 11:28 am
Offline
Amateur
Amateur
User avatar

Joined: Sat Aug 10, 2013 7:55 pm
Posts: 105
I use google a lot but I won't join the same way I didn't join facebook. Give it time, it won't be a requirement.

_________________
fender vintage hot rod 57 strat


Top
Profile
Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 11:58 am
Offline
Professional Musician
Professional Musician

Joined: Fri Oct 14, 2011 11:15 am
Posts: 1018
Location: Glasgow
Agree, Google are a monolithic monstrosity. They're always pestering me to use my real name in YT comments and stuff. Now tell me; what good does that do me? :?

_________________
Luck won't do it and ignorance can't

George Van Eps.


Top
Profile
Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 1:29 pm
Offline
Rock Star
Rock Star
User avatar

Joined: Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:10 pm
Posts: 5057
Location: The Capital Wasteland
Google maps beats the $@!& out of bing or apple maps.

Gmail and Youtube are probably some of the best services ever to be given to the web.

Say what you want, but if you want to give up google, give up your electronics.

_________________
1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic


Top
Profile
Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 1:52 pm
Offline
Professional Musician
Professional Musician
User avatar

Joined: Sat Jan 29, 2011 6:10 pm
Posts: 2261
Location: Elay
My beef with google is the incessant robo calls to my cell phone. I get about 4 or 5 a week. Each time I listen to the speel and then push the number they tell me to be removed from their call list. This has been going on for about a year. I guess they've trained me well.
Basically, because of the endless calls, I will never knowingly spend a dime that I know will go to google. It would be best if they didn't use their real name when they try to sell me something. :lol:

_________________
'10 American Deluxe HSS Sunset Metallic
'10 JA-90 Thinline Telecaster
'15 Music Man JP-15 Blueberry Burst
'07 Les Paul Standard Faded LCPG #82
'14 Carvin ST300
'12 Carvin CS424S
'66 Guild Starfire IV w/Bigsby
'14 Warmouth Partscaster Daphne Blue


Top
Profile
Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 1:58 pm
Offline
Professional Musician
Professional Musician
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:02 pm
Posts: 1978
Location: Manchester
I find google to be the most insidious and intrusive company in the world (with the possible exception of facebook).

Today I closed my google account because I wanted to revert to using youtube just with my youtube username. Fine, account deleted, can I log in to youtube now, can I bollocks. All my videos are still there but without my google account I can't access the edit pages. So I've got to recover my account. And it won't let me. So I email support. And I get an automated reply saying fill out this form. So I try to fill out the form but, get this, I need a google account to access the form.

So in summary I need to sign up, fill out a form, recover my account, link it to my youtube account. And you know what, I can't be bothered. Instead I'm going to raise DMCA takedown notices on all my videos to get them removed because I no longer consent to google hosting them.

While I'm at it I've blocked all the google API scripts that everyone in the world embeds in web pages, I'm sick of them using scripts to track me round the internet.

_________________
Image
Image my stuff on soundcloud


Top
Profile
Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 3:27 pm
Offline
Rock Icon
Rock Icon
User avatar

Joined: Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:51 pm
Posts: 25353
Location: Witness Protection Program
This is my search engine (it's good too) :

https://duckduckgo.com/

_________________
Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!


Top
Profile
Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 5:20 pm
Offline
Professional Musician
Professional Musician
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:02 pm
Posts: 1978
Location: Manchester
Buxom wrote:
Say what you want, but if you want to give up google, give up your electronics.


And if you don't want to give up google, be prepared to give up any semblance of online privacy. Swings and roundabouts eh?

_________________
Image
Image my stuff on soundcloud


Top
Profile
Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 8:59 pm
Offline
Rock Star
Rock Star
User avatar

Joined: Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:50 pm
Posts: 7998
Location: ʎɹʇunoɔ ǝsoɹ pןıʍ
Thanks Mike, My browser was just updated with a new home page. I still use gmail .... for now. They've been trying to get my real name and cel number for over a year now. They kick me out and force me to sign back in and then they ask my name and number without giving me a link to gmail. Fortunately it's in my bookmarks so, for now .... I just log back in and then go directly to the inbox from the bookmark. I see the day coming soon when they will find a way to circumvent that option. At that point I will abandon gmail. The one, single, positive attribute of gmail (or any web-mail) is that the messages are not actually on my computer which (theoretically) adds one more layer between me and a virus.

_________________
Image
Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.


Top
Profile
Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 10:03 pm
Offline
Professional Musician
Professional Musician
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:02 pm
Posts: 1978
Location: Manchester
Gmail, that's one service I would never use. Read the user agreement you agreed to, it permits Google to scan your email for keywords so they can target advertising to you. No thanks.

_________________
Image
Image my stuff on soundcloud


Top
Profile
Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 5:04 am
Offline
Rock Icon
Rock Icon
User avatar

Joined: Fri Jul 13, 2007 1:10 pm
Posts: 13467
Location: Palm Beach County FL
Miami Mike wrote:
This is my search engine (it's good too) :

https://duckduckgo.com/

I use this whenever I can, but there are still some limitations. They still have a long way to go to catch up to Google. I often have to turn to Google for greater content.

_________________
"Another day in paradise!"


Top
Profile
Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 6:54 am
Offline
Aspiring Musician
Aspiring Musician

Joined: Thu Dec 13, 2012 12:58 pm
Posts: 739
Buxom wrote:
Google maps beats the $@!& out of bing or apple maps.

Gmail and Youtube are probably some of the best services ever to be given to the web.

Say what you want, but if you want to give up google, give up your electronics.


I totally agree and am "thankful" for youtube. I love youtube. That's why I'm torn. I like watching full concert vids, discovering new music, uploading my own music. Youtube is great. But google has definitely become more "big corporate" lately and my point is the kids who started it originally were all about "don't be evil" and this selling to corporations and promoting Miley Cyrus' garbage to get 200 million views in one week is crap. It's teaching women to be bad. www.heartiste.wordpress.com.


Here is an unknown musician who makes good songs, sort of reminiscent of the Cars in the 1980s. Google does what it does on purpose. They have made youtube the new FM radio that tells the kids what to listen to (EDM/pop crap). Sure, nothing stops anyone from searching and discovering rock and other music where instruments are played, as we do here, but a 14 year old kid sometimes knows nothing but what is popular. When you go to youtube's home page...you see nothing but Miley Cyrus, Britney, and Rihanna type stuff.

Cool song and cool vid by an unknown musician:


Top
Profile
Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 8:19 am
Offline
Rock Star
Rock Star
User avatar

Joined: Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:50 pm
Posts: 7998
Location: ʎɹʇunoɔ ǝsoɹ pןıʍ
GilgaFrank wrote:
Gmail, that's one service I would never use. Read the user agreement you agreed to, it permits Google to scan your email for keywords so they can target advertising to you. No thanks.

What advertising?

_________________
Image
Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.


Top
Profile
Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 9:00 am
Offline
Professional Musician
Professional Musician
User avatar

Joined: Sat Jan 29, 2011 6:10 pm
Posts: 2261
Location: Elay
BMW-KTM wrote:
GilgaFrank wrote:
Gmail, that's one service I would never use. Read the user agreement you agreed to, it permits Google to scan your email for keywords so they can target advertising to you. No thanks.

What advertising?


This doesn't really bother me. Everywhere you go you're going to get ads. I'd rather see stuff that I'm actually interested in rather than Viagra and low refi rates.

_________________
'10 American Deluxe HSS Sunset Metallic
'10 JA-90 Thinline Telecaster
'15 Music Man JP-15 Blueberry Burst
'07 Les Paul Standard Faded LCPG #82
'14 Carvin ST300
'12 Carvin CS424S
'66 Guild Starfire IV w/Bigsby
'14 Warmouth Partscaster Daphne Blue


Top
Profile
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 34 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2, 3  Next
Go to page 1, 2, 3  Next

All times are UTC - 7 hours

Fender Play Winter Sale 2020

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum

Search for:
Jump to: