Dear Google — please don't take this the
wrong way, but, well… I think you suck.
This
hasn't always been the case. Once upon a time, I
actually enjoyed using Google services.
But today — well, today I
simply wanted to upload
an old video
to our Labs
YouTube channel. Sadly, just after signing in, and before I
could upload anything, I was accosted by a
"request" to link the YouTube channel to a Google+
profile. And before I knew it — one Mr.
"fslabs" had created a Google+ profile. Not
great!
Here's a thought: perhaps you
should first ask if the YouTube account is an
"individual" BEFORE you try linking it to a G+
profile?
Because you didn't ask, "I"
ended up with a new profile(s) for which "I" have
no use. And undoing (deleting) the linkage from
the "individual" profile to the "group" channel
ended up disabling the channel. Then I needed to
spend some time re-enabling and restoring it. And
then I needed to reset the privacy settings for
all of the existing videos.
Felt like
extortion. (Evil.)
Now, I'm sure you
have good reasons for all of this G+ "promotion"
crap. And probably some bad ones, too.
I'm
certain I made mistakes. I'm sure I missed some
small cancel button during the process. And I
think I located the "unlink" option in the YouTube
settings somewhere after I had already disabled
the channel by killing the G+ profile.
But
you know what?
I really don't care
anymore. I've had it with Google et al. I'll be
looking into alternatives. (Vimeo, Dailymotion, et
cetera.)
And my personal Google
account? It's underused, but I've kept it around
because it's "free".
(Google's security engineers can be
trusted, I think.)
My decision
to delete my Google account
is purely a matter of me being fed up of Google
attempting to drive me into yet another unwanted
"social" network, just for the sake of its bloody
search engine rankings and associated advertising
machinery.
