The picture caption was also amended to correct Karim's name, from Jared Karin as the original said. This article was amended on 12 November 2013 because the original said Jawed Karim made his second-ever post on YouTube after an eight-year silence. Google+ isn't a social network it's the Matrix When YouTube was acquired by Google in 2007, Karin's payoff was worth around $65m. But he took a back seat to the growing venture, instead enrolling in Stanford University as a computer science graduate student while acting as an advisor to the site. Karim was working at PayPal in 2005 when he met Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the other co-founders of the company. Adding YouTube comments could increase that enormously – perhaps to as much as Facebook's 1.2 billion monthly users. Google has provided less clear "activity" figures – citing 540 million active users who take "some sort" of social action each month, and 300 million "in stream" monthly users. However the company has been reluctant to share details about how many people actively use the network for social purposes, with one report suggesting that there were fewer than 10 million daily users in mid-2012. Google+ has been the source of dissent for some users as Google first added a G+ account to every Gmail address, whether or not people wanted it, used it to reward peoples' position in searches, and then made it essential for commenting on Google Play reviews. The company argues that this is necessary to personalise comment sections for each viewer: "You’ll see posts at the top of the list from the video’s creator, popular personalities, engaged discussions about the video, and people in your Google+ Circles," Google explained in a blogpost.īut others suspect that its intention is to artificially boost the apparent number of users of its Google+ social network. Other commenters have said that they won't use Google+ to comment on YouTube videos – and so will stop commenting. 2) Any types of ad blocks since YouTube has a complicated system of video monetization, some ad blocks may affect video loading.
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1) Any types of web accelerators if you have one, disable it or select the option Don’t accelerate this website for YouTube. Google's overhaul of YouTube comments has sparked controversy: the YouTube video announcing the change has nearly 30,000 comments, many including harsh criticism of the move through the medium of ASCII art.Īs Karim has noticed, the site now requires a Google+ account to comment. The following add-ons and plugins may influence on the correct YouTube work. Why the fuck do i need a google+ account to comment on a video?