The big privacy concern with YT is that your viewing history will be displayed to your friends and acquaintances, attached to your real name.
People can say, "Don't be ridiculous! They would never!", but Google is so utterly tone-deaf to user concerns that people, myself included, just can't rule it out. And it makes us angry.
Think back to Buzz: suddenly, you could view all of your contacts' contacts!! That's the level of deafness Google has to how you might want your data displayed to people you know...and that's why this feature is so unacceptable to pretty much everyone.
Then that should be specifically highlighted as a concern and a fix.
I don't even know what people mean by 'privacy' anymore - it means so many things to different people. A friend of mine started a 'social network focused on privacy'. Except that when you signed up, your details were available to anyone else who'd signed up - they could browse all existing members. Was that 'private'? I complained and he's changed the behavior, but the point is his notion of 'privacy' was apparently radically different than mine.
People can say, "Don't be ridiculous! They would never!", but Google is so utterly tone-deaf to user concerns that people, myself included, just can't rule it out. And it makes us angry.
Think back to Buzz: suddenly, you could view all of your contacts' contacts!! That's the level of deafness Google has to how you might want your data displayed to people you know...and that's why this feature is so unacceptable to pretty much everyone.