Maybe a month ago, YouTube popped up a prompt that tried to encourage me to use my real name and required me to explain why I was refusing… now I just got another prompt which made it even easier to say yes and offered things like “S Sokolow” and “Stephan S” to see if that might change my mind.
I’m starting to get the impression that Google’s end game is to force me to use my real name on YouTube and to delete my account if I give a fake one, as they do on Google Plus… or at least to nag me constantly as they do on GMail because I don’t own a cellphone I can pair with the account for extra security.
…I really need to raise the priority on exporting my YouTube faves and writing a site-agnostic likes/faves manager. Yes, my nick is already my name, but their automated systems don’t know that for certain and it’s the principle of the thing.
Of course, first, I need to move my e-mail hosting to one of my VPSes and set up RoundCube as the webmail UI for when I’m away from home. (I’m already using Thunderbird here)
Oh, Google. Here we go again… by Stephan Sokolow is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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