YouTube Lover Gets Annoyed
May 8, 2012
Wil Wheaton took to his blog to declare, “Google is Making a Huge and Annoying Mistake.” Wheaton insists:
“Yesterday, I tried to like a video on YouTube. I wasn’t signed in to my Google Plus account, and this is what I saw: Where the thumbs up and thumbs down used to be, there is now a big G+ Like button. When you go anywhere near it, you get a little popup that tells you to ‘upgrade to Google plus’ for some reason that I don’t remember, because the instant I saw it, I made a rageface.”
He then went on to Tumble a profanity-laced missive to Google expressing his righteous rage. Apparently, he products a show whose existence depends on the capture of enough YouTube up votes. I suppose the problem with a newfangled business model is the rapid change that tends to accompany new fangles.
The thing is, I can’t reproduce Wheaton’s problem. I still get the thumbs up and down buttons, and nary a Google+ button in sight. (Even in Chrome, where I’m signed into iGoogle.) The only difference I see is that I am not a Google+ subscriber. But then, he says he’s getting a “upgrade to Google+” message, and wasn’t signed into his account anyway. I don’t question his experience, he has a screenshot after all, it’s just . . . odd.
He should try rebooting.
Cynthia Murrell, May 8, 2012
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