"You will no longer be able to sign in to YouTube without a Google Account."

[guruoo]

In other words, if you don't want to sign up for a google email account,
(or link an existing google email acct to youtube) you can kiss your youtube account good-bye.


"You will no longer be able to sign in to YouTube without a Google Account.
If you do not want to link this YouTube account, you can sign out here."

[Petrushka]

1. I don't have a google e-mail account . . . so . . .

I just checked to see if I could get into the YouTube account I have---which I don't use, BTW---and, no problemo . . . thus far, anyway.

[guruoo]

3. That's interesting.

It started asking if I wanted to link it (via interrupt page)several months ago,
but provided a link allowing me to go on to my account without doing so.
That is, until tonight.

http://www.youtube.com/user/guruoo

[Petrushka]

5. The link you posted took me directly to my own youtube page. Freaky!

:shrug:

[guruoo]

8. Do what???

Try copy-pasting it into a new window (IE), or tab (Firefox)

[Petrushka]

10. Same result . . . takes me to my own page!

Used a new window in IE, BTW.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. I used my existing e-mail address, but this annoyed the hell out of me, too.

I've had an account on YouTube since 2006. I don't think you have to have a new e-mail account, since I used the one I already have, but then I'm not that astute when it comes to these things. x(

[Lucinda]

4. It's easy enough to get a throwaway google acct and just use it for things like this I guess

Still annoying

[Rene]

7. what gives google the right to impact my access to youtube

this linking account business is impossible to make work......BUT the more I tried to work at it...the more pissed off I became that it's even happening.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

9. what gives google the right to impact my access to youtube

I would suspect it's because they own YouTube.

[superduperfarleft]

21. LOL. n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Fascism! Fascism!

One free website is mildly hampering my ability to log on (but not view free videos) to another totally free website!

Fascism!

[joshcryer]

13. We're spoiled little brats aren't we? :(

And we're too lazy to make alternatives to youtube and gmail and facebook.

[CommonSensePLZ]

6. Google is a 'b' (lol) and our privacy is their nectar. nt

[joshcryer]

12. I assure you that the datamining and profiling that Google does with your regular account...

...will not be affected in any way by your gmail account if it remains unused.

I personally use Gmail and YouTube linked (have had a Gmail account since it launched).

I personally search for the most absurd random shit every few days just to fuck the profiler up.

Right now it thinks I like "SHAYTARDS." I'm ashamed to admit the other sick and twisted stuff it has suggested to me due to my messing with it.

[somone]

14. And you can't get a Google email account without a cellphone number

Is that right?

[joshcryer]

16. No, that is patently false.

[somone]

17. Try creating a new account

You have to give them a phone number - if not a mobile phone, then a phone with voicemail.

[snagglepuss]

18. Why do they want a phone with voicemail?

[superduperfarleft]

19. So give them a fake number. n/t

[somone]

24. They want SMS verification with a real number

Try it.

[Dappleganger]

20. LOL, no.

[somone]

25. Try it

Chances are if you're in the U.S. they'll ask for a cellphone number. Best way around this is to use a throwaway cellphone - or use a proxy in a country/area where they don't ask for a phone number.

[Ignis]

26. From the source:

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=27441

[somone]

28. Google email (Gmail) now requires verification via SMS text or voice call

[Ignis]

29. Google account =/= Gmail app

You can have a Google account without using Gmail.

Again, from the source:
https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount

No phone number required to create a Google account.


ETA: I know you're talking about Gmail in this sub-thread, but to the point of the overall thread, you do not need to enter a phone number to create a Google account--and thus, you do not need to enter a phone number to access YouTube.

[vaberella]

15. I love gmail so I didn't care. Not to mention this was in effect for 9 months now. n/t

[TransitJohn]

22. A google account is not the same thing as a gmail account, fyi.

I've had a google account for years, and have never had a gmail account.

[guruoo]

23. Youtube: Once you link the two, "the accounts are permanently linked."

"When you link a YouTube account to a Gmail account, the accounts are permanently linked."

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=69964

[Bardley]

27. and once you do, every time you log into youtube, it leaves you logged into google unless you log

out of that too

and they track everything you do in google, like a duck with a band on his leg