# Damn it Google, stop being evil! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 21, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914 "2010-04-21T20:44:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/1 "2010-04-21T20:44:15Z")
Google, who has the corporate motto “Don’t Be Evil” is being evil. Not big E evil, but the sort of petty evil that makes the world a worse place every single day. Ever since they bought YouTube, they’ve been linking the two services more and more. So if you have a YouTube account, and any e-mail address registered with Google for any purpose, Google will oh so fucking helpfully offer to permanently, irrevocably link the two. The problem with this annoyingly helpful approach is that some of us have multiple YouTube accounts. For instance, I have one for the music videos I shoot for my nieces and other high school music…and I have others for completely different stuff. But damned evil Google decided, utterly without asking me, to link one of them to my Gmail account. So every single fucking time I log in to my Gmail account, it changes the login on YouTube! MOTHERFUCKER! I’ve been in the middle of writing a response to someone, log into my Gmail account…and LOSE THE ENTIRE RESPONSE! All this would only be slightly annoying if I could unlink these two accounts that I never intended to link. But I can’t! And to make it even more annoying, I’m being constantly harassed to link my various accounts. I’m worried that I might accidentally click on the honking huge “Yes, link my accounts” button, rather than the tiny “No, I don’t wish to” link. Fuck you Google. I don’t want to link them! Not now, not ever! And damn it, let me fucking unlink the one you already fucking LINKED! Stop being evil! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/2 "2010-04-21T20:53:11Z")
Hitler linked people’s accounts. I’m just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/3 "2010-04-21T22:50:35Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Hitler linked people’s accounts. > > I’m just sayin’. Google is now trying to clean up Hitler’s image by [removing him from youtube](http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/globe-on-technology/hitler-parodies-face-own-downfall/article1541900/) No, not really. But they’re still caving to whining complaints from Constantin Films. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/4 "2010-04-21T22:54:35Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Hitler linked people’s accounts. > > I’m just sayin’. pfftt… Stalin linked more accounts than Hitler. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/5 "2010-04-21T22:59:36Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Google, who has the corporate motto “Don’t Be Evil” is being evil. Not big E evil, but the sort of petty evil that makes the world a worse place every single day. > > Ever since they bought YouTube, they’ve been linking the two services more and more. So if you have a YouTube account, and any e-mail address registered with Google for any purpose, Google will oh so fucking helpfully offer to permanently, irrevocably link the two. > > The problem with this annoyingly helpful approach is that some of us have multiple YouTube accounts. For instance, I have one for the music videos I shoot for my nieces and other high school music…and I have others for completely different stuff. > > But damned evil Google decided, utterly without asking me, to link one of them to my Gmail account. So every single fucking time I log in to my Gmail account, it changes the login on YouTube! > > MOTHERFUCKER! > > I’ve been in the middle of writing a response to someone, log into my Gmail account…and LOSE THE ENTIRE RESPONSE! > > All this would only be slightly annoying if I could unlink these two accounts that I never intended to link. But I can’t! > > And to make it even more annoying, I’m being constantly harassed to link my various accounts. I’m worried that I might accidentally click on the honking huge “Yes, link my accounts” button, rather than the tiny “No, I don’t wish to” link. > > Fuck you Google. I don’t want to link them! Not now, not ever! And damn it, let me fucking unlink the one you already fucking LINKED! > > Stop being evil! So Google is like the Diet Coke of evil? Anyway, I have seen their prompts to link these accounts together pretty regularly as I have gmail as my regular email account and use google and youtube pretty often and I just ignore them. Are you certain you didn’t accidentally allow this to happen? ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/6 "2010-04-21T23:06:40Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > So Google is like the Diet Coke of evil? > > Anyway, I have seen their prompts to link these accounts together pretty regularly as I have gmail as my regular email account and use google and youtube pretty often and I just ignore them. Are you certain you didn’t accidentally allow this to happen? I have Gmail and Yahoo accounts. I have YouTube accounts. I forget which one is set as an e-mail address from which, but the thing is I never intentionally **linked** one to the other. You have to supply an e-mail address to set up a YouTube account. Fine. But that is a damn sight different than wanting to “link” the fucking things, so that every time I log into my Gmail account it changes what YouTube account I am logging into as well! I want the option to say “Fuck off! No, I never wish to link these two accounts and I want you to stop asking me!” ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/7 "2010-04-21T23:10:21Z")
I don’t know that this is full-blown evil so much as “mild irritation, like an itch in an embarrassing personal spot that keeps coming back.” ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/8 "2010-04-21T23:59:56Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > I don’t know that this is full-blown evil so much as “mild irritation, like an itch in an embarrassing personal spot that keeps coming back.” Most corporations are evil - it’s part of the cost of doing business. But few claim they actively _avoid_ being evil. This is the sort of evil shit I expect from Yahoo, which makes no claim to not be evil. But Google? _Evil!_ - Sir Simon Milligan ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/9 "2010-04-22T02:03:20Z")
Man, you had to have accidentally enabled this. I get where you’re coming from…I see it all the time. Are you sure you didn’t accidentally click “yes” when you meant to click “no”? I have ZERO problems with the exact combination of free services. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/10 "2010-04-22T02:43:23Z")
Yep. It’s the _corporations_, man. Now puff, puff, give, you are messing up the rotation. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/11 "2010-04-22T03:15:11Z")
It will all be linked someday soon anyway, so relax and go with the flow, man! ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/12 "2010-04-22T05:40:24Z")
As an employee of a company that is, in a tiny way, a competitor to Google, the idea that they are some kind of corporate saint is ludicrous. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/13 "2010-04-22T13:42:14Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Yep. It’s the _corporations_, man. Now puff, puff, give, you are messing up the rotation. You’re supposed to _inhale_, square… now you’ve got ashes all over your flannel suit. Hey man, is that freak flag a _wig_? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/14 "2010-04-22T14:36:13Z")
Why don’t you just use a different browser for YouTube? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/15 "2010-04-22T15:11:02Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > You’re supposed to _inhale_, square… now you’ve got ashes all over your flannel suit. Hey man, is that freak flag a _wig_? He’s an undercover narc, man. You can tell by the shoes. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/16 "2010-04-22T15:43:36Z")
Why, because he owns some? ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/17 "2010-04-22T16:31:56Z")
MAN PISSED OFF WHEN WEB SCRIPT EXECUTES INSTRUCTION HE GAVE IT Film at 11. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/18 "2010-04-22T16:51:02Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Why don’t you just use a different browser for YouTube? I can do that, by browsing YouTube in FireFox and reading e-mail in IE but… WHY SHOULD I FUCKING HAVE TO? Google should allow me to “opt out” of all this linking shit, or, at the fucking LEAST, let me unlink the two accounts that I never wanted linked in the first place. This “roach motel” bullshit is not what I expect from a company that pretends to have a corporate motto of “Don’t be evil”. > [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > MAN PISSED OFF WHEN WEB SCRIPT EXECUTES INSTRUCTION HE GAVE IT > > Film at 11. No, I never, ever, linked the two accounts. Google “helpfully” linked the Gmail account I had open when I created a new YouTube account. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/19 "2010-04-22T16:54:06Z")
What the fuck does their company motto have to do with this? I hate to break it to you, because your anger obviously knows no bounds, but linking your Google and YouTube accounts isn’t fucking evil. It is, at best, annoying. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914/20 "2010-04-22T18:49:22Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > What the fuck does their company motto have to do with this? I hate to break it to you, because your anger obviously knows no bounds, but linking your Google and YouTube accounts isn’t fucking evil. > > It is, at best, annoying. You have obvously never composed a long YouTube message to someone, logged into a Gmail account to check a bit of information, then found - because of this linking - that Google had logged you out of one YouTube account and logged you into another one, deleting the message, losing it forever. You have lived a blessed life. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-it-google-stop-being-evil/536914.md?page=2)