Forum Moderators: goodroi
signing up for YouTube means signing up for a Google Account that gives you access to YouTube, as well as other Google services such as iGoogle, Reader and Docs. If you already have a Google Account, you can choose to link your new YouTube Account to it, which means one less password to remember.You can still sign up for YouTube with any email address and you'll still need to confirm whatever email address you enter. You'll also still pick a unique YouTube username that identifies you to the YouTube community.
So why are we doing this? We feel that by jointly connecting accounts, you can take greater advantage of our services both on YouTube and on Google, especially as we start to roll out new features in the future that will be powered by Google technology.
A group of us were using one PC to access YouTube the other week. The person logging into YouTube had the same first name as the owner of the PC, but a different surname and different email address.
After logging into YouTube, a screen appeared offering to join this YouTube log-in to an existing Google Account. The button to enable that was *almost* clicked by the person logging in to the machine. That would have joined accounts owned by two different people together! Luckily I stopped the button click just in time.
After that, we could not shake off this prompt, and ended up deleting all cookies and all stored passwords for all Google and Google-owned properties just so that we could log in to YouTube without being hassled by this dumb assumption that wanted us to link the accounts continually popping up a box, to enable it.
See also: [webmasterworld.com...]
[theregister.co.uk...]
I agree it's hassle, and it is also a hint we should take on board when signing in at a public computer/Internet Cafe.
