TWO MAJOR GOOGLE ANNOUNCEMENTS of special interest to G+ and YouTube users https://plus.google.com/+LaurenWeinstein/posts/FeMqDtRxQyL
You can read the details at the links below, but here's my executive summary as I understand it. Google is dissolving the forced linkage between YouTube and G+. You'll be able to use YouTube fully without a G+ profile, and -- this is the best part from my standpoint: Comments made on YouTube videos from the YouTube side will stay on YouTube, and comments made on YouTube videos from the G+ side will stay on G+ and not be forcibly displayed on the YouTube side as well. I've been advocating such a change for ages, due especially to continuing problems with YouTube trolls -- sometimes threatening ones -- polluting my G+ threads when I share YouTube video references on G+ along with my own thoughts. Anyway, that's how I'm interpreting the two blog posts below, and it's good news for G+ and good news for YouTube. I'll update this post as appropriate if I learn more, especially anything that contradicts my current analysis. *Thanks Google G+ and YouTube teams!* http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/everything-in-its-right-place.html http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2015/07/youtube-comments.html --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
