Can't gain access, as it tells me that the password was changed 14 days ago....but it wasn't.

Won't let me use my existing email addy, and keeps asking for another one that I've used in the past...but I haven't.

 

Confused or what?

do you have a google account e.g. Gmail

Use your Gmail email and password

Use your Gmail email and password

Don't know if I've got one tbh.

 

Apparently, You Tube changed everyone's passwords recently, so a message that came up says.

Why would they do this, and how, and another message has been coming up for yonks now suggesting I change my user name to something more recognisable.

Wish they'd mind their own ruddy business and let me mind mine. 

 

I'll have to see if I've got an g mail account. It is ringing a bell from many moons ago, but goodness knows what it's called.

WOW!! Found it and managed to sign in!

Fluke.

 

Anyway, all my favourites have now vanished, due to my new user name being my g mail account name .

 

Anybody else had this problem? 

Thought facebook was bad with all their constant fiddlin' and twiddlin' with the user controls, but this one takes the ruddy biscuit. 

 

i want my old account back!! 

Edited 11 November, 201312 yr by Mr Ree

there should be a link accounts message somewhere 

WOW!! Found it and managed to sign in!

Fluke.

Anyway, all my favourites have now vanished, due to my new user name being my g mail account name .

Anybody else had this problem?

Thought facebook was bad with all their constant fiddlin' and twiddlin' with the user controls, but this one takes the ruddy biscuit.

i want my old account back!!

Unless your password is easy to guess and your Google account was hacked, switching to a more recognisable name doesn't affect anything.

You will have your old account and a Google account. As above you need to merge them.

Google are forcing everyone to sign into YT using a "Google+" account, which might be the problem if (like me), you havent set up a Google+ account (although Google appear to have tried to set one up for me, I refuse to use it and have Google cookies and scripts blocked except when I need to use specific services like translate).

Google are forcing everyone to sign into YT using a "Google+" account, which might be the problem if (like me), you havent set up a Google+ account (although Google appear to have tried to set one up for me, I refuse to use it and have Google cookies and scripts blocked except when I need to use specific services like translate).

Now we're talkin'! 

 

What about exactly, I really do not know. 

It's all about data mining the comments apparently so they can serve you up ads related to what context you watch and what your comments say.

 

They must hate me, I've not seen a web advert in years thanks to adblockplus. I get such a shock when I use a machine without it, "This is what the web really looks like!"

 

Seriously I had no idea how many adverts there are on most web pages.

It's all about data mining the comments apparently so they can serve you up ads related to what context you watch and what your comments say.

 

They must hate me, I've not seen a web advert in years thanks to adblockplus. I get such a shock when I use a machine without it, "This is what the web really looks like!"

 

Seriously I had no idea how many adverts there are on most web pages.

Likewise - I hate working on a machine that doesnt have it. Makes the pages so much clearer with ABP running

Now we're talkin'! 

 

What about exactly, I really do not know. 

 

Using 3rd party programs like NoScript and Abine Taco (and its replacement whose name I have forgotten), to block scripts and cookies from tracking your activities, and accessing Gmail via Thunderbird, so Google cant nose at your contact list.

Using 3rd party programs like NoScript and Abine Taco (and its replacement whose name I have forgotten), to block scripts and cookies from tracking your activities, and accessing Gmail via Thunderbird, so Google cant nose at your contact list.

Oh dear. This is all well over my head.

Am I best using another web browser then?

I've got Firefox but find it much slower than this Google Chrome thing.

 

Never had these sort of problems when I was on AOL, (used them as my browser) but everyone told me they were SSSSSO bad.

On reflection, I don't think they were, and they've got the best home page too imo.

 

I'm on Virgin media now

Edited 12 November, 201312 yr by Mr Ree

You will have another account linked to your current Youtube account, either one that you have made yourself or you are yet to make one, just go through the settings and you should be able to find out

Same happened to me when YouTube updated a few weeks back, it got me to make a new account and I thought ****, all my subscriptions and favourites have gone! then I found my original account through the settings

I later tried access YouTube from my iPhone and it asked me which account I wanted to log into, that's when I kind of understood what they had done lol

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I then somehow managed to merge both accounts into one so I now have a YouTube account with a new username but it has the favourites and subscriptions from my original account

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Edited 12 November, 201312 yr by Harry1212

Oh dear. This is all well over my head.

Am I best using another web browser then?

I've got Firefox but find it much slower than this Google Chrome thing.

 

Never had these sort of problems when I was on AOL, (used them as my browser) but everyone told me they were SSSSSO bad.

On reflection, I don't think they were, and they've got the best home page too imo.

 

I'm on Virgin media now

 

These addons are for Firefox; which is a bit slower than Chrome, but works on a wider number of websites and supports more useful addons than Chrome.