Google acquired YouTube in 2006 and Google given choice of two accounting systems on the Google account and the other YouTube account system (built in 2005). From May 2009 Google started requiring all new YouTube usernames to be powered by Google Accounts and now Google wants all the remaining pre-May 2009 users still using the older YouTube account system to connect a Google Account to their YouTube username. Google says this will improve the security and safety features and the two account systems extremely complicated to support two different account systems.

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