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Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 11:02 am
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They're always pestering me to use my real name in YT comments and stuff.


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It asks me every time I log in to my YT account, so annoying! I can't find a way to make it stop asking. :evil:

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Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 11:33 am
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strings10927 wrote:
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It asks me every time I log in to my YT account, so annoying! I can't find a way to make it stop asking. :evil:

It is very annoying and it takes you to that bit where you have to reject it and hit the button to continue as before. It's actually exasperating when it happens. :P

What i don't understand is why would anyone want to use their real name for YT comments and such like? A lot of the things you hear about identity theft and stuff like that is caused by people giving out too much information about themselves over the net! You never know who's hands it could fall into.

Funnily enough i saw a report on this evenings news about this and it said it's pretty unreal the amount of people who are using the net on unsecured devices having either none or inadequate security protection. :? It then showed a bit where a tech savvy person hacked straight into the persons PC, very very easily.

No wonder online fraud and crime is a booming business. :x

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Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 12:46 pm
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strings10927 wrote:
Gorgon wrote:
They're always pestering me to use my real name in YT comments and stuff.


+1

It asks me every time I log in to my YT account, so annoying! I can't find a way to make it stop asking. :evil:


This is what finally pushed me to close my google account and delete my youtube channel. I had a long email discussion with their support team and they had me logging in and out and sending screenshots, eventually they said yes, sorry but you're just going to have to put up with that stupid account select form every time you log in.

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Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 1:40 pm
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This is what finally pushed me to close my google account and delete my youtube channel. I had a long email discussion with their support team and they had me logging in and out and sending screenshots, eventually they said yes, sorry but you're just going to have to put up with that stupid account select form every time you log in.

See this is what annoys me about them. It's their way or the highway and they've gotten so big they think they can do anything now as they don't have much competition really.

What they don't seem to realize (or care about) is the fact that many of us don't feel comfortable including zillions of personal details about ourselves, including using our real names on YT comments etc. There's too many opportunists scam artists madmen and psycho's out there to be safe doing that.

Google just doesn't seem to get that and i don't understand why.

I was so sick of them constantly flashing that thing up about using my real name that i went to do it! Then i thought "what the hell am i doing agreeing to use my real name for all this?!" At that point it gave me a jolt and i said no way! :P

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Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 2:05 pm
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The annoying thing is that so many websites embed Google API scripts in their source HTML and this is used by Google to track browsing habits too. If you sign into youtube then go to any site that uses the Google API (and you don't know until you view the HTML source) then Google know who you are and where you've been.

FireFox and Adblock is the browser choice for anyone not wishing to be spied on by those faceless sons of fun in Mountain View.

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Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 2:16 pm
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And just so you're aware, if you sign into Youtube then visit the Fender forum then Google knows you're here. This is from the Fender forum's HTML, this embedded script is on Google's web server and every time your browser loads it you will get tracked by Google as having visited this website ...

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Ask yourself, what do you think "trackPageview" does?

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Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 4:04 pm
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I used to hear the click when the Feds were listening,
now I just hear the drones. :?

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Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 4:26 pm
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Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 2:55 am
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Identity theft - - what's your caution level?

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Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 3:33 am
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Identity theft - - what's your caution level?


Well as a dodgy friend of my ex committed ID fraud and ran up £18,000 of debt in my name with fake bank accounts resulting in me getting court summonses for debts I knew nothing about, I tend to be a bit careful about what information I place in the public domain.

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Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 3:50 am
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Sorry to hear that - we shred everything.
I'm concerned but we are hopefully below the radar.
We've never had a problem, yet.

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Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 4:02 am
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It was years ago, took a lot of phone calls and letters to clear it up. The guy was arrested and charged, skipped bail and went home to Nigeria. The worst part was he also used my mum's address to run up fake lines of credit and she started getting letters. That made me more than slightly angry.

So yeah, shred all personal papers before disposing of them. Plus I only ever use a reloadable credit card for internet purchases now.

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Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 8:34 am
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GilgaFrank wrote:
Miami Mike wrote:
Identity theft - - what's your caution level?


Well as a dodgy friend of my ex committed ID fraud and ran up £18,000 of debt in my name with fake bank accounts resulting in me getting court summonses for debts I knew nothing about, I tend to be a bit careful about what information I place in the public domain.

Man! that's disgusting. Sorry to hear you had to go through that.

I'm kinda paranoid about all this too and i watch about what details i put online. That's why i find it perplexing this dumb YT thing with Google. It's as if they're trying to gather as much personal data about you as they can get their hands on. :x

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Post subject: Re: Google, you said you'd never be evil, you jerk!!!
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 9:27 am
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Gorgon wrote:
It's as if they're trying to gather as much personal data about you as they can get their hands on. :x


That's Google's entire business plan right there

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Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 11:34 am
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Gorgon wrote:
It's as if they're trying to gather as much personal data about you as they can get their hands on. :x


That's Google's entire business plan right there

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