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by Simple1234 4687 days ago
Yeah, the YouTube one is really bad. The pop-up really needs to be redone too. It used to be a nice easy to understand wizard and as soon as you saw it you could tell instantly you weren't interested. Now it's an awkwardly worded choice and you have to take the time to read and think about it. I might even go so far as to call it a dark usability pattern. Where's the "don't ask me again" checkbox?

Personally, I like commenting on really unseemly videos and only having an obscure username attached to it.

2 comments

The "display your real name" Youtube pop-up is clearly designed to be misleading. The damn thing doesn't even have a "close" button. Nor does it have the option everybody wants to choose ("I'm not displaying my real name because I just don't want to").
I'm with you on this, I had no trouble with my accounts being associated until they decided it had to mean my real name appeared on youtube. I understand why they do it given the state on comments there, but for me this is why I keep my account dissociated ever since (despite the stupid popup that keeps asking me the same question every couple of days).