Monday, March 10, 2014

+1'd your post "user's identity" revealed

It's very simple to track a user with their picture in YouTube, so be careful once before you upload the picture as an icon on YouTube. I personally feel, it's one of the privacy issues which YouTube needs to work on. Below is the picture, which shows the updates happened in the google account. Say for example, if a google user likes your comment, these updates are showing up in these updates.

Generally, Google doesn't reveal the information or the profile of the user, it just shows the picture of the user and their name. So it's not a natural idea to check in, who has liked our own comments. I found a trick which solved the mystery behind it.
Step 1: I tried to look in for the user name/playlist name in YouTube by narrowing down various relevance, still I couldn't able to find the user.
Step 2: I downloaded their thumbnail icon from the updates, which I get from google+ updates and using the icon, I made a search in google, with the image search.
Step 3: To my surprise, I can find the details of the user, to which the icon picture linked to and also some of the user relevant profile links to various websites.
Step 4: Finally by taking the username as a hint, I confirm the user Identity. 

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