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Offline Krusty

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Youtube has gone to hell...
« on: January 30, 2011, 09:20:37 PM »
Okay, so I can no longer log into Youtube without "linking" it to my e-mail address... It wants to link to a yahoo address I have. Hell with that! I'm no freakin' crop for their info farming attempts. I'm not going to be bought or sold dadgummit.

If anything I'll create a dummy account...

What do I have to do? Simple as creating an account? Nope... I can't. While it was more than eager to link my YAHOO account when it thought it was the correct one (the e-mail I used to set up the youtube profile) it now won't accept a new yahoo account... Okay, so dummy setup wasted. It only wants GMAIL accounts.

So I set up a dummy GMAIL account, right? Wrong! I set up the dummy GMAIL account only to find the last screen is....

wait for it...


They won't create the account til they send my phone a text code verification.....





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Youtube has gone to hell. Apparently the corporate hoods at Microsoft got ahold of them. I mean they own it sure, but now they're dictating policy.

The hell with that.


Is Vimeo still up or did they get shut down too? What are the other options?
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Offline Plazus

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Re: Youtube has gone to hell...
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2011, 09:31:09 PM »
Not real sure what's going on. I have noticed an increase in scorn with Youtube with all the comments people put up. Ads, pop ups, and stuff you mentioned above.
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Re: Youtube has gone to hell...
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2011, 09:38:38 PM »
Google owns YouTube.  I use a Google account for a lot of my online stuff, I love the convenience of it.
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Re: Youtube has gone to hell...
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2011, 11:57:36 PM »
Krusty, you're doing it wrong.
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Re: Youtube has gone to hell...
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2011, 01:03:19 AM »
Kazaa, I've had a youtube account for a while now. Only recently has it started all this BS. I can't even log in any more because of this nonsense.
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Re: Youtube has gone to hell...
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2011, 02:34:18 AM »
Not to mention that much of the content is blocked for countries outside the US. Most of the films posted in this forum cannot be viewed in Germany because Sony/UMG/WTF own the soundtrack.

Do not post on youtube.
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Re: Youtube has gone to hell...
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2011, 03:41:38 AM »
Quote from: bozon on January 31, 2011, 02:34:18 AM
Not to mention that much of the content is blocked for countries outside the US. Most of the films posted in this forum cannot be viewed in Germany because Sony/UMG/WTF own the soundtrack.

Do not post on youtube.

I used a proxy program to get around this but for the life of me I can't remember what it was.

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Re: Youtube has gone to hell...
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2011, 07:30:14 AM »
They just ask you to link it. You can still chose not to. I have no problems logging in by clicking on the "skip this time" option at the bottom
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Re: Youtube has gone to hell...
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2011, 09:19:41 AM »
I pay $25 a year for Photobucket Pro and I can host videos there.  My only gripe is occasionally their 'moderators' get a bit enthusiastic about deleting files that 'violate the terms of service'.  I've tussled with them a few times over it then just gave up fighting. 
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Offline Krusty

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Re: Youtube has gone to hell...
« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2011, 10:14:56 AM »
Quote from: Lusche on January 31, 2011, 07:30:14 AM
They just ask you to link it. You can still chose not to. I have no problems logging in by clicking on the "skip this time" option at the bottom

That is not an option for me. As soon as I log in it takes me to this "link e-mail" screen then it says "link or log off"....
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Offline Hawk55

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Re: Youtube has gone to hell...
« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2011, 10:50:10 AM »
Quote from: Krusty on January 30, 2011, 09:20:37 PM
Okay, so I can no longer log into Youtube without "linking" it to my e-mail address... It wants to link to a yahoo address I have. Hell with that! I'm no freakin' crop for their info farming attempts. I'm not going to be bought or sold dadgummit.

If anything I'll create a dummy account...



I usually use this for a temporary email Krusty to screw them...I wouldn't give them my real one either:  http://mailinator.com/



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Offline Krusty

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Re: Youtube has gone to hell...
« Reply #11 on: January 31, 2011, 10:58:03 AM »
Thing is, since it's a pre-existing youtube account (not a new creation) it wants either my on-file e-mail OR a GMail e-mail. It doesn't like any other options. I don't want to lose my likes/favorites/uploads/history etc on my previous, but I think after this fiasco I'm done with their crap.


Anybody know another (or a better?) online service?
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Offline Hawk55

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Re: Youtube has gone to hell...
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2011, 11:25:50 AM »
Ahh, I understand!  I guess you could create an additional Gmail email accnt. just for them.  But I do agree, they've become very intrusive and obnoxious with their ads.   :bhead
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Re: Youtube has gone to hell...
« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2011, 11:57:28 AM »
So let me get this right Krusty, you forgot your e-mail accont?

Vimo is 2nd best to YouTube.
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Re: Youtube has gone to hell...
« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2011, 01:01:47 PM »
No Kazaa, you got it wrong. Re-read original post.

I guess I'll set up a vimeo account, then. Thanks for the tip.
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