Hello All,

Anyone know a bit more about the Google +1 links that are appearing at the bottom of scenes? For obvious reasons, I'm keen to keep my fetish within the community and are rather concerned given the way Google + works! Hope there isn't a Facebook 'like' button on its way!



Anybody else got any opinions on this?

G x

 

So don't click the button if you don't want to share with your Google+ people...

 

hi more worried about whether others can see it on my profile and then they click it.

 

Not on your profile, it's on your download store on each video.

If you are worried about that... then you should also be worried about people posting the links and pics on Google+ or Facebook or whatever.

If you don't want people see and share stuff you put on the internet, the only answer is to not put that stuff on the internet.

 

O I completely agree Noise, that's a valid point. I'm proud of my content on here and UMD is such a close community anyway that I have no real concerns with regards to people reposting other peoples' content. (Although you have to account for the odd troll - they get everywhere!) My concern is specifically with the google+ button which makes it easy for viewers to unintentionally publicize the UMD content.

 

Well, it does exactly what anyone with a G+ account expects it to do. By clicking it, well, it does what it is supposed to do. Same as the Facebook "Like" button... and the post button I am about to click on so you can read this.

My car came with an accelerator pedal, it would be silly to remove it on the basis people don't think when they use it and end up crashing into things. Would kind of ruin the point of it for the rest of us

 

lol! true! Just made me kinda go oooo blimey!

 

I hear that.

Personally, I absolutely refuse to use Facebook because the earth shifts so much under your feet when it comes to their implementation of privacy. That's a company that wholly and truly sees their users as their product to sell.

 

I think that anyone who posts anything at all on UMD should expect it to be publicized. The forum pages, the downloads pages, the user profiles, and other areas all have HTML to actually invite and attract Google and other search engines to index them, and to display them as high as possible on their search results. It helps bring business to the producers.

If you want your user profile to be private, where people must be logged in to view it, then you do have that option in your Preferences. Search engines cannot index a UMD user profile that has been set to private. You can also post forum messages that are private, even if your profile is not private. Those posts will not show up on any search engine, and users must be logged in to read them.

But the download store and all of its content is not only wide open to all search engines, but actively tries to be high on their search results. I think that if you do not want content on your download store to be public, then it should be not be put up for public sale in any capacity.

Messmaster