[YouTube-API] Re: IMPORTANT: Upcoming ClientLogin failures for unlinked YouTube accounts

The end of April is quickly approaching, so I wanted to send out
another reminder: ClientLogin requests involving YouTube accounts that
are not linked to Google Accounts will soon start failing. Please see
the message below for more details.

On Mar 30, 1:35 pm, Jeffrey Posnick <je...@google.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I wanted to direct everyone's attention to a recent blog post,
> "ClientLogin#FAIL":
>
>  http://apiblog.youtube.com/2011/03/clientlogin-fail.html
>
> The post covers a variety of issues that come up when usingClientLogin, and makes oneimportantannouncement ("Scenario 1" in the
> post) that I wanted to reiterate separately so that no one misses it.
>
>  Starting towards the end of April, attempts to useClientLogin
> authentication with a YouTube account that is not linked to a Google
> Account will start failing. Once this change is in place, linking a
> Google Account to an existing YouTube account is the only way to
> continue using that YouTube account to authenticate with the YouTube
> API.
>
>  There is more background on YouTube/Google account linking in this
> blog post:
>
>  http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-connecting-your-youtub...
>
>  Please don't let this change catch you or your users off guard!
>
> Cheers,
> -Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
> ~ YouTube is hiring! ~http://google.com/jobs/workyoutube~

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