Over the last month or so (possibly longer), YouTube users who go to sign-in to their accounts have been seeing a green bar at the top of the page asking them to link their YouTube and Google accounts together. Considering Google purchased YouTube back in October, 2006, it’s almost surprising that they haven’t really pushed the linking of accounts until recently.
So now you ask yourself, what are the benefits of linking your accounts together? Google says one benefit is that in the future, some of their services will be integrated with YouTube and visa versa. CNET points out likely candidates like Blogger, Google News, and even Google Talk. Once you link accounts, you can also load the contacts from your Google Account (the same as your Gmail account) and add those contacts as friends on YouTube (this is something you’ve been able to do for quite some time).
If you don’t get the green bar at the top of the YouTube page but you would still like to link your accounts, here’s what to do.
- Click on the link to “Sign in with your Google Account” in the right sidebar of the YouTube page
- Enter your Google Account login credentials (remember that this is the same as Gmail)
- You’ll be taken to a page specifically for linking your YouTube and Google accounts together which looks like this:
- Enter your YouTube account login credentials and then click “Link Accounts”
- Check to make sure your accounts are linked by clicking “My Account” at the top right of the page and look for “Account Settings.” If you were successful at linking your accounts, you’ll see the option to “Unlink YouTube and Google Accounts
Are you willing to link your account when a judge has ruled that Google has to handover all YouTube user data? Linking your accounts could potentially give Viacom yet more of your data.
Source: CNET News.com
Some surprises ahead : so Frankenstein and Wolfman where the same ?!
While I could not care less for Viacom …I would not want to link my accounts before Google provides some serious intensives for doing so …which so far is not the case
If eventually, they do incorporate some of their services into YouTube, I think that might be enough of an incentive for some.
boycott is the only them until they reverse this completely stupid move designed to keep tabs.screw boycott them right in the ear.
I don’t like this at all. I don’t want iGoogle automatically logging me in when I want to check my subscriptions at on Youtube so they can have more precise data on what I surf the web for and an email for advertisers to actually link to me.
I wouldn’t argue that Youtube is basically essential in this day and age but I have no qualm switching from the Google search engine to Bing. I know some people enjoy having all their stuff linked to Google like Blogger,Chrome,Gmail and now Youtube but putting all your eggs in one basket is not the smart thing to do.
Does anyone knows how difficult is by real to UNLINK Youtube from Google account ? Please think twice before linking stuff together …
I DON’T HAVE A DAMNED GOOGLE ACCOUNT.
And I’m not getting one.
Wish it’d quit nagging me.
Today i have been forced to link my accounts, so i did and just after that I have deleted my youtube account, and then google account (It was necessary to link them to login to youtube). Then i have removed “google” as default from my web browsers. Next time they can force my azz :]
Surprisingly i did exactly the same thing. I first linked it… then i deleted both…. and now my homepage is bing.
After this absurd move of corporate overlord herding its cyber sheeps I abandoned my YouTube account and have been using Yahoo for my searches and Dailymotion for videos.
Another good move is not to use Chrome and stick to Firefox. At least Mozilla is not trying to control my life.
wtf link google account . I linked it to my hotmail and i think it worked. then when i was done i unlinked. Damn this is retarded.. im emailing someone later on
no linking … no keeping tabs on me .. shame on you google
Because of the forced sign up of the igoogle account for youtubers like me I have switched my search engine to Yahoo. I still use my youtube account just not google. I don’t want a search engine keeping tabs of my searching history to build marketing techniques to target me with, or to sell to other businesses. I just don’t like the principle of it and the privacy pitfalls.