<story><title>FixYT</title><url>http://fixyt.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zokier</author><text>I think this is completely wrong approach. We as a community should stop giving G&amp;#x2F;YT our traffic if their stuff does not please us instead of making an effort to give them more traffic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nashequilibrium</author><text>Sign me up, i want youtube to be killed dead!!!! Youtube is cool but google jumps in and just ruins your experience. They asked me 4 time before to adjust my name and i chose my current username....4 times. Now, for the last two weeks i have been getting this pop again but now i must apparently sign up for G+, when i try and comment, guess what that fu&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; popup again, i cannot comment unless i join G+.I have been just closing the window and saying, &amp;quot;O well that saves me some time wasting at least.&amp;quot; Google is now as arrogant as Microsoft was and don&amp;#x27;t care about what the consumer wants but where they want to push you. I will never use G+, Google  will save themselves the distraction by shutting down that crap, but they so blinded by facebook that they losing sight of the actual power they have.&lt;p&gt;They got this idea in their head that they need to create the complete identity for users to target ads better. This idea came about when the press and pundits where saying that facebook was so valuable because of realnames and user identity. The issue is that it&amp;#x27;s been proven that you can build a profile from a person&amp;#x27;s search history, even Target can predict if you are pregnant. So why waste time with this shit, anger your users and destroy your brands value?</text></comment>
<story><title>FixYT</title><url>http://fixyt.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zokier</author><text>I think this is completely wrong approach. We as a community should stop giving G&amp;#x2F;YT our traffic if their stuff does not please us instead of making an effort to give them more traffic.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfoster</author><text>But then you find yourself up against their network effects and more often than not, it goes absolutely nowhere. If you just want a nicer YouTube, step 1 is at least experimenting within the confines of the existing one. Otherwise you&amp;#x27;d need to worry about all of the infrastructure and accepting video uploads, encoding, etc. Unless you&amp;#x27;re on a crusade against Google&amp;#x2F;YouTube, this is absolutely the sane way of starting out.</text></comment>