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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: C5Allroad on Tue, 12 November 2013, 22:00:52
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Well guys, Google would like for you to use your real name on YouTube now too. I know have an account that has been suspended due to the name policy lol. Hunter Angel
Really? I don't want to use name Google.
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what
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Has everybody forgotten how to use a fake name on websites?
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Has everybody forgotten how to use a fake name on websites?
u can use a fake name on websites?
mind = blown
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i bet u OP pressed "i am under 18" on certain sites.
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i bet u OP pressed "i am under 18" on certain sites.
u don't have to enter your real age on the internet?
mind = obliterated
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unicorns dont have to do a damn thing if they dont want to
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unicorns dont have to do a damn thing if they dont want to
unicorns = freedom
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What. What. What.
demik thank you for saving my life
im tired of not being able to watch trailers for call of duty on steam because im too young
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Yeah, of course you can use a fake name, and I do, but it's still a pain in the ass to have to come up with something that Google will believe is a real name (in case I don't want to tie that account to the rest of the established fake identity). Yep, they not only pester you for a real name, but also judge whether you seem to be giving them a really real name. You can say "what's so hard about using fake name lolnoobs" but then I can ask what's so hard about letting people just use arbitrary handles like pretty much the entire internet has done the whole time. How many people are going to provide their actual information? Whatever Google thinks this will accomplish, it won't; it's just annoying.
More often now it seems as if people think that making pithy smartass comments that reduce matters down to a size easily ridiculed is a good substitute for actually having something to say. Just take a second look at whatever you're about to post and consider whether you're actually making a point or just running your mouth and trying to look clever.
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Has everybody forgotten how to use a fake name on websites?
Using a fake name on Google+ gets you banned.
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I think its down to trying to be like that thing (i think) that bing did where it would tell you "hey 10 of your friends also searched for this. Here is a link they found helpful."
On the one hand I kind of dig the idea. Its like an expansion of people posting links to stuff on facebook. So when for intsance, my friend Al who listens to some pretty obscure but awesome bands, If I got an update that he listened to some song on youtube, Id be pretty stoked given the chances are high that I will like the band and have never heard of them.
In practice though, I dont think I know anyone who uses google+ So the one cool aspect doesnt help me. But it doesnt hurt me to have to use a fake name, since I dont use google+ anyways. So I put my name as Steven Lloyd and Im fine with that. Its not like my youtube/google+ is my main account anyways.
The only real nuisance is the constant nagging about it.
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That is not true. Periodically I get asked if Id like to change my YouTube channel names to my real name, and there's always an option to decline and continue using your preselected alias.
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Well I was trying to use the name I have on GH. But then I get suspended lol.
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Has everybody forgotten how to use a fake name on websites?
Using a fake name on Google+ gets you banned.
I don't think my Bruce Wayne novelty account has gotten banned yet. Lemme check.
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☻/ This is Bob. Copy and paste him
/▌ all over youtube
/ \ so he can take over
and return the old comment section
^This is almost as ****ing annoying as Google's new YouTube policies.^
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I gave up on Google a long time ago. I've long since switched from using their browser to Firefox, made by a company which actually values and defends privacy.
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I gave up on Google a long time ago.
what search engine do you use? which email service? did you also give up on google image search and street view?
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☻/ This is Bob. Copy and paste him
/▌ all over youtube
/ \ so he can take over
and return the old comment section
^This is almost as ****ing annoying as Google's new YouTube policies.^
Holy ****. I did not see that a day or two ago..Just checked and it's everywhere :eek:....with a slight modification
It's now turned into:
░░░░███████ ]▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ Bob is building an army.
▂▄▅█████████▅▄▃▂ ☻/ This tank & Bob are against Google+
Il███████████████████]. /▌ Copy and Paste this all over
◥⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙◤.. / \ Youtube if you are with us
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I like it. I would be commenting but you know
I was banned
:(
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Hunter, its time to strike back at Google, change your name legally to Hunter Angel and then sue them for distress and defamation for sneering at your actual name.
Still that would defeat the purpose of anonymity, so after that, start a fake account in your old name that will sound real even though it is now FAKE!
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whats google+ ?
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whats google+ ?
^^ +1
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Well now that I have changed it to my real name, I have been unbanned.... This f***ing sucks. Google get your s*** together!
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Google+ has always been trash
I feel like I'm under a pile of trash
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Youtube comments are trash.
Why do you want to preserve rotting garbage?
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How do they determine if the name you give is real or not? People name their kids the dumbest names these days, adults can also have their names legally changed to nearly whatever they want.
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Well I think it's my email... Then again my friend had both names on the email and G+ the same and that got banned. So I don't really know how they determine that. Jesus and Adolf get accounts but not me....
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whats google+ ?
^^ +1
Exactly, why not use Yahoo or Bing ;) ?