This Google and Youtube affair is really starting to piss me off

[rocketpig]

Ajescent said:
I really don't see why I

A: Have to be signed into an email account just to use Youtube.
B Can't separate the two. What difference does it make if I sign in with one account to my email and another to youtube, I don't see the correlation.
C: Lastly, why does my email have to be my youtube sign in? What was wrong with my youtube sign in name?

This was something that was fine as it was why fix something that was in no way broken?!

Because it was broken. Google had their login system scattered across a dozen platforms. I had different logins for Adsense, Analytics, YouTube, Gmail, blah blah blah. It was a nightmare. At some point, they had to (painfully) migrate everyone to a "Google Account" (the new name for one login). That way they could integrate Picasa, G+, and their other social systems into their already existing systems.

This has been happening for nearly two years. You're only noticing it now but they began this process by integrating their business-related systems quite some time ago.