If you would like to sign a petition that was created on Change.org to express your outrage at Google's new policies, click here, PLEASE!
It begins slowly, little by little with messages popping up asking if you'd like all your existing Google account to share a name. This, just to point out quickly, is dumb because I may have used my birth name for my business email at Gmail, and the name Serialkillaz01010101 as my Youtube account. So no, Google, I do not want strangers to know my given name when I comment on Dr. Phil videos, nor do I want any business inquiries to see my name pop up on their dashboard as 'SerialKillaz4lyfesuuuuun' when I reply to a job posting on Monster.
I tried to ignore these pop ups for the most part until today, when it seems that they have integrated their "magnum opus", the complete change of commenting on Youtube. I finally had to give in, for it would not let me post comments without choosing a name that would either carrying itself across all of my Google accounts, or separate one name for YouTube, one name for all the rest. The kicker in this is that whichever option you choose you are notified that a Google+ account is going to be opened for you, regardless of whether or not you want one (I think you know from my previous experience that I do not want one. Ever).
