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They may have made this offer sporadically. I went through the system and checked my settings (and took advantage of the moment to de-authorize a couple of old apps that had wanted permissions).

In general, this was a useful thing, and I felt glad they had set up a convenient way to do this - kudos to Google for beating Microsoft and the bunch to the game. But I'm still leery of it all - traveled to an obscure place in December and then found an obscure video on Youtube about that place. Guess which video showed up in my Google Plus feed this week because someone else had commented on it? Not cool. Don't want my social stuff and my video watching to get linked, but thanks to Google they are indelibly linked. That makes me want to use Youtube.

Also on my Google Plus feed was a post about another, less obscure place I visited on the same trip. That might just be coincidence, but I do NOT like feeling like I'm on the receiving end of an algorithm determining which videos and information should be passed into the interior of my little data bubble. Don't like feeling like I'm being managed.