YouTube forcing Google + (rant)

[Oisterman]

UGH. Anyone else having to put up with this crap? It just took me like 20 minutes to figure out how to unlink and delete my Google+ page. Its ridiculous, the average Joe couldn't figure that out. I'm so sick of everything I do online having to be shared in a social network. For Christ sakes, I don't need my dad seeing my "smoke weed playlist" or my boss finding my "party hard st pattys day" playlist. Just because I email someone sometimes doesn't mean I want them to be my friends and see everything I do on youtube. Jeeeeze, I'm sick of this invasion of privacy that makes all of your activity public.

Google has always been pretty rad about stuff, but now they're turning into another facebook.

LEAVE YOUTUBE ALONE PLZ. IT WORKS FINE AS IT IS.

[Ronin]

I have an own eMail for my Yt. I never linked it up to anything.

I would be so glad, if they had kept goodle and Yt 100% split. They think they can leverage G+ this way, but they devalue both platforms for me.

[Oisterman]

Exactly. I didn't have the foresight to have separate youtube and email accounts, because back when I made them Google + wasn't even a thing. Google may not have even owned youtube at the time. Now both accounts are years old, and I don't want to delete either one.

Fortunately I found a way to unlink youtube from G+, and then afterwards delete my G+ profile. It was stupidly hidden though, and I'm still not sure how exactly I did it.

[postrook]

yeah it's annoying. you will take my real name from my cold dead hands, youtube.

[marcipaans]

I don't have Google+ to begin with. The only thing that connects me to Google is the YouTube account. Yes, I use my real name for the account and been doing so since the moment they first introduced it. Never really had any noteworthy problems with Google related accounts or YouTube. I must be in minority :3

[duby]

Yea youtube took my real name as well. Did not know how to make it not use it.