When Youtube wanted me force me to a G+ account in order to even moderate my comments, I just turned all comments off. It's not worth it for me to be exposed that much more for all the reasons you linked.
I'm sort of glad these days that they killed GReader because it gave me a reason to use their services even less.
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I'm sort of glad these days that they killed GReader because it gave me a reason to use their services even less.