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Google, you fucked up when you forced people to merge their youtube accounts.


That was simply the last straw. Honestly, the writing was on the wall once Google screwed up the pseudonym vs. real names response.

The response should have been to simply allow pseudonyms (i.e., Google knows who you are logging in as, and can infer your identity very easily anyway) and to do as twitter and prevent mis-use of real names where appropriate.




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