I never heard this story. Didn’t they use his real image for marketing?
You can sign up here without FB. I did. You just need an email address.
So what happens when Google buys BoingBoing, then Disney buys Google?
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
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They did, the Colonel sold the business along with his face as the face of the business, made him a very rich man.
Then he went postal when he realized that in the corporate world, maximizing profit is above honor.
The Colonel, in his own words:
That friggin’ … outfit … They prostituted every goddamn thing I had. I had the greatest gravy in the world and those sons of bitches they dragged it out and extended it and watered it down that I’m so goddamn mad.
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It’s so true, though, but you can’t go nuts after selling out. Burt’s Bees is a shadow of what it once was. So many chocolate companies sold to big corporations and the quality goes down.
The big guys rely on brand name recognition and history.
I’m not sure if it’s because I’m in Australia, but I still get the option to sign in with my old YT account although they periodically ask me to switch to my G+ account. I like the new YT comment options, but I Also like having some seperation between my online identities. I think it’s healthy to have different names in different places so you can express various sides of yourself.
That’s why I use FF, it’s not directly controlled by an organisation with a vested interest in cross-platform intergration (at the moment)
The comments on my YouTube channel are actually quite positive and friendly. It’s more like a discussion area for me and my subscribers than a collection of random comments. I’m still not sure if I like the new G+ integration, but I do hope that it doesn’t change the friendly atmosphere I’ve managed to cultivate there.
I think it makes a big difference when the uploaders actually reply and interact with the viewers. It reminds people that there is a real human behind the scenes and encourages common decency. Channels like Sci-Show, Pomplamoose, Tested, and Quill18 or all good examples of this.
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Ok, I know exactly what you went through. Your ‘G+’ account has superseded your ‘youtube public face’ account but here’s how to fix it:
- go on to the site and make sure you’re logged on
- go to the upper right hand corner and by your av pict is a little arrow pointing down, click that
- it has some menu options, but go to the bottom one that says switch account
- your ‘old’ account should be there along with any other (linked) ones you also had
It might not work for all of them, but look here to see your ‘apps’ which a lot of websites ‘create’ for when you post there
https://www.facebook.com/bookmarks/apps
Also I would suggest getting https://disconnect.me to stop all the FB cookie requests, and then not deleting your account but rather chaninging the info so it’s just a bunch of junk that they can’t use, as I feel that is more likely to hurt them and advertisers in the longrun.
YouTube Center replaced like four or five other extensions for me. It lets you individually block various parts of the video page (comments being one), block video ads, prevent autoplay, force it to buffer the entire video instead of just the next 30 seconds, add audio/video download links, and a host of others. It’s a little tricky to use, but super super handy.
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Oh, I despise the Google+ requirement for YouTube. I’m not mocking Jawed Karim because I disagree with him, but because he’s one of the very, very few people who was actually in a position to (possibly) prevent it from happening, and he decided he’d rather be rich. Us mere users didn’t get bupkus, we’re allowed to complain; Karim actually helped bring this upon us, so he’s got no right to bitch.
I endorse this endorsement. It just makes it better.
I am confused. I have had a YouTube account for years and Google recently created a Google+ page for it. It is not, however, merged with my real name Google+ account (even though they share the same email address). So how does the new comment policy require that YouTube accounts become real name accounts?
And there are those of us who have standard alternate identities. Technogeek is one of mine, and appears on several systems. I have at least three others in addition to my actual name; I’ll leave it to the NSA to figure out who they are.
YouTube regularly asks me if I’m ready to start using my real name on comments and the like. I tell it no and it lets me continue to use the existing nickname. I wish it would stop pestering me about this; if I wanted my name publicly associated with those comments that’s how I would have set up the account in the first place.
I was only asked once (many weeks ago?) if I wanted to merge my real name account with my username account, but I have not been asked again. Maybe that is because I do not comment? I tried it once a few days ago (first comment ever) and had no problem.
It just asked me today if I wanted to keep ‘gilbertwham’ or use my real name. I told it gilbertwham and hope that’s the end of it (it isn’t the end of it, is it?).
It probably asks me repeatedly because I have various script blockers running and haven’t let it store/retrieve that preference.
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