{"id":112650,"date":"2013-11-21T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dacgroup.com\/google-presses-forward-changing-landscape-youtube-comments\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T05:53:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T10:53:46","slug":"google-presses-forward-changing-landscape-youtube-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dacgroup.com\/en-gb\/insights\/blog\/search-optimization\/google-presses-forward-changing-landscape-youtube-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Presses Forward: The Changing Landscape of Youtube Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.make-it-rain.co.uk\/wpe-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Youtube-e1385027999956.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4495\" src=\"http:\/\/www.make-it-rain.co.uk\/wpe-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Youtube-e1385027999956.png\" alt=\"Youtube\" width=\"260\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"color: #7c7c7c;\">After releasing the statement in September\u2019s blog post, YouTube has recently integrated its comments with Google+ so that <strong>any comment posted on a YouTube video will automatically come from and be linked to your Google+ profile.<\/strong> This has certainly been a controversial merge of the two networks to say the least, causing outrage and anger amongst thousands of users. Some of the reasons stated by Google for this move include: \u2018<i>Comments you care about moving to the top<\/i>,\u2019 and so there are \u2018<i>Better ways to moderate comments<\/i>.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #7c7c7c;\">Reaction <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #7c7c7c;\">\u00a0However, many users aren\u2019t in favour of this latest update and a petition against the change has now been signed with almost 200,000 signatures of users who are furious at the recent changes. <strong>One of the major factors for the backlash is the fact that you now need a Google+ profile to comment on any YouTube video.<\/strong> This straight away poses the question: Is this just Google\u2019s way to increase numbers to their network? Fuelling them in the race against social rivals Facebook and Twitter?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #7c7c7c;\"><b>Privacy<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #7c7c7c;\">By linking the comments you post with Google+, each comment can now be identified and tracked down to a name and a face, something which many users feel violates their privacy. It is no secret that many YouTube comments can be controversial, crude or negative and the majority of these posts are from anonymous accounts. This new update will now put a name to anyone who posts anything of this nature so that they can be identified along with spammers. Surely then this is a positive from the update as the number of people who post insulting comments from anonymous accounts and get away with it will now be minimised? That or the number of fake Google+ profiles will increase.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #7c7c7c;\"><a style=\"color: #7c7c7c;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.make-it-rain.co.uk\/wpe-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/gVmr4eG-2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4496 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.make-it-rain.co.uk\/wpe-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/gVmr4eG-2.gif\" alt=\"Youtube vs Google\" width=\"498\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a>Nevertheless, <strong>the invasion of privacy is something that has angered YouTube users who wish to keep their Google+ and YouTube networks separate.<\/strong> The freedom to post your views on videos without it being linked back to you has now gone. One user commented:<\/span> <span style=\"color: #7c7c7c;\"><i>\u201cWhy in the world would I want to use my full name on YouTube?\u201d asked one.\u00a0 \u201cUnless my name was literally John Doe I don&#8217;t want some random potential murderer able to track me down based on my YouTube content.\u201d\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<section id=\"hub-newsletter-signup\" data-role=\"forward-email-subscription-container\" class=\"full-width w-100 d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center bg-c7f2b3\">\n    \n    <div class=\"max-w-1400 w-100 form\">\n        <div class=\"text-content-container\">\n            <h2>\n                Stay Forward            <\/h2>\n            <p class=\"subtitle\">\n                Get exclusive insights into digital <br class=\"d-none d-lg-block\">media's top-trending topics delivered<br class=\"d-none d-lg-block\"> directly to your inbox.            <\/p>\n        <\/div>\n\n        <div data-role=\"form-group\">\n            <div class=\"d-flex flex-column w-100\">\n                <form data-forward-email-form class='custom-hubspot-form' id='hubspot_form_6ab011d2d3806'>\n    <div class='d-flex input'>\n        <input type='email' class='form-control me-2 input' placeholder='Email address' aria-label='Email' name='email' required>\n        <button type='submit' class='btn_primary-filled_white'>Submit\n<\/button>\n    <\/div>\n    <input type='text' name='dac_hp' value='' tabindex='-1' autocomplete='off' aria-hidden='true' style='position:absolute;left:-9999px;height:0;width:0;border:0;padding:0;overflow:hidden'>\n    \n    <p class='hubspot-status'><\/p>\n<\/form>\n<script>\njQuery(document).ready(function($) {\n    var loadedAt = Date.now();\n    var form = $('#hubspot_form_6ab011d2d3806');\n    form.on('submit', function(event) {\n        event.preventDefault();\n\n        \/\/ Get email input value\n        var emailInput = form.find('input[name=\"email\"]');\n        var email = emailInput.val().trim();\n\n        \/\/ Get the status element for this form\n        var statusElement = form.siblings('.forward-email-status-container');\n\n        \/\/ Submit through the site's form proxy (form IDs stay server-side)\n        fetch('https:\/\/www.dacgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/api\/v1\/forms\/submit', {\n            method: 'POST',\n            headers: {\n                'Content-Type': 'application\/json'\n            },\n            body: JSON.stringify({\n                form: 'newsletter',\n                source: 'block-hub-newsletter',\n                lang: 'en-gb',\n                email: email,\n                hp: form.find('input[name=\"dac_hp\"]').val(),\n                turnstileToken: form.find('[name=\"cf-turnstile-response\"]').val() || '',\n                elapsed: Date.now() - loadedAt,\n                pageUri: window.location.href,\n                pageName: document.title\n            })\n        })\n        .then(response => response.json().catch(function() { return {}; 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This feature is said to boost conversation amongst users regarding their comments on the videos, another advantage of the update according to Google.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #7c7c7c;\">This is the statement given by Google:<\/span> <span style=\"color: #7c7c7c;\"><i>\u201cWhen it comes to the conversations happening on YouTube, recent does not necessarily mean relevant. So, comments will soon become conversations that matter to you. In the coming months, comments from people you care about will rise up where you can see them, while new tools will help video creators moderate conversations for welcome and unwelcome voices.\u201d<\/i><\/span> <span style=\"color: #7c7c7c;\"><a style=\"color: #7c7c7c;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.make-it-rain.co.uk\/wpe-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Untitled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4497\" src=\"http:\/\/www.make-it-rain.co.uk\/wpe-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Untitled.png\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"424\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color: #7c7c7c;\">Yet, do users want relevant or recent? Before the update, the top comment was normally a witty or clever comment, which had been either voted up by likes, with the most recent comments following beneath. This feature will now be taken away by Google+ comments at the top, showing what your connections comment on videos, not what the general view of the video is, which in some ways would be more relevant. <strong>This therefore should push you to add meaningful people to your circles, whose view you would value, comments you would like to see and people you would like to interact with in conversation.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #7c7c7c;\"><b>What will happen? <\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #7c7c7c;\">So, what do you think of the update? Have you been on YouTube recently and noticed the new comment system? If you are someone who goes on YouTube just to look at videos and not comment or interact, the update won\u2019t affect you as much as the YouTube community who frequency converse and discuss videos. These are the people who have been most angered by the integration and a big reason for this is the fact it wasn\u2019t optional and the lack of knowledge they had regarding it.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #7c7c7c;\">Following the petition against the update signed by almost 200,000 people and close to<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/technology\/comments\/1qcdj2\/if_you_want_to_complain_to_google_directly_about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">500,000 posts on one forum<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color: #7c7c7c;\">alone regarding the subject, it will be interesting to see whether Google and YouTube will respond to the backlash or simply let users adjust without commenting on the matter. Either way it will be interesting to see the stats of both networks following the integration which has caused so much conversation. Will they have gained more users (as they surely would have hoped) by making it compulsory to have a Google+ account to comment on YouTube videos? Or will this update backfire on them resulting in a loss of users to both social platforms?<\/span> <\/span> <span style=\"color: #7c7c7c;\"> What do you think? \u00a0Let us know below. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After releasing the statement in September\u2019s blog post, YouTube has recently integrated its comments with Google+ so that any comment posted on a YouTube video will automatically come from and be linked to your Google+ profile. 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