...fantastic. YouTube are pushing for people to use their full name on YouTube, which shows up in place of their username. I just got a prompt suggesting I do that.
I've posted about this matter in the past, though this is slightly different, because at the moment (and hopefully this'll be the case always), YouTube aren't forcing people to use their real name. You can decide whether to use your full name on YouTube, or to continue using your username. (Though it should be said that YouTube ask you to justify continuing to use your username if you want to go that way, which really rubs me the wrong way.)
It is nice that they offer a choice, somewhat. But when I said that they're pushing it, I mean that the UI is such that you're fairly likely to go through with it if you don't read carefully. And as I say, the fact that you have to justify your reasons for continuing to use your username is just... eugh. It gives you a choice of 6 buttons IIRC, and one of them is a button saying "I'm not sure, I'll decide later", but that sounds like they still expect a justification later.
There's also a slight annoyance because it makes it harder to tell who's who for me, but that's basically protesting change because it's change, and I'm sure I can get used to it. I'm much more concerned about what I've written above.
What are your thoughts?
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![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) marahmarie |
| 2012-10-11 00:30 (UTC) |
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The end.
(As you know I got most of my angst over real-name policies on not just G+ but also TechCrunch and FB out in the open months ago in writing this post, but I don't think it's "nice" of them now to offer a choice on YT so much as I think they're getting afraid for whatever reason not to - they know shit we don't know; what they know now we'll know in just a few more few months, is my thought on that - but outside of that, yeah, same story, different day. This should not surprise you or anyone familiar with the idea that they want to ultra-target ads by tracking you all over the damn Web; God knows it does not surprise me.)
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