Deleting my Google+ profile
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Deleting my entire Google+ profile
Your Google+ profile will be deleted along with other services and data that depend on your Google+ profile.
What to do:
Sign in to Google+. Click on your full name or email address in the top-right corner of your screen. In the Account Management section, click Delete profile and remove related Google+ features. Select Delete your entire Google profile.
One question: with everything seemingly requiring a google+ account these days - what other services here do you end up getting rid of?
Of course, for the people that matter (especially advertisers) can see through it.
Some content producers are already moving away from YT, at the same time AdSense is the one that still pays the best.
About your question, I would answer based on who's the boss of whom.
Here's my argument: more traffic/users/signups equals more money. It's simple.
Well, you certainly know how to be convincing.
The thing is, it doesn't matter whether he's got proof or not. He's free to present his thoughts, and you're free to ignore them, or perhaps more productively: consider them.
Extremely few discussions are formal debates. So instead of behaving like you're in one, how about just listening to what people have to say, and evaluating whether you think there's any merit to it, or whether it might be true, etc?
Someone says something, you react to it. Then you say something, and someone reacts to what you said.
Now let's go through his post as an example:
>>> Of course, for the people that matter (especially advertisers) can see through it.
- "Hmm.. Well, I guess that's certainly possible. Perhaps even likely! After all, lots of people are complaining about Google+, and it really does seem like Google is doing their best to count everyone using YouTube as a Google+ user. Advertisers are likely to notice what's going on, just like you and me on Hacker News, and they won't like it."
>>> Some content producers are already moving away from YT, at the same time AdSense is the one that still pays the best.
- "I suppose moving away from YT would make sense for an advertiser that's fed up with Google's behaviour. Hmm.. I wonder if AdSense actually does pay the best. Maybe this guy knows something I don't, or maybe his claim is inaccurate. Oh well!"
.. Maybe something like that?
> This is a very accurate description
Which you've very conveniently omitted.
> The thing is, I was responding to this:
>> This is a very accurate description
>>> I think Google is trying to inflate its G+ numbers in
order to seem competitive with Facebook, so its
basically a dick-size contest with users getting caught
in the middle.
I wonder what would happen to my old Blogspot blog that has hundreds of entries. And photos in that blog, that were uploaded to Picasa through Blogspot before G+ even existed.
I can see that Blogspot album in G+, so it might be data associated with G+ and it would be deleted. We spent hundreds of hours writing and taking those pictures, so it would be a shame to have all that hard work deleted because of a vague what gets deleted description.
You cannot retroactively create another identity to seperate them. the only thing you can do is entirely delete your google account along with your email, youtube videos, picasa albums, etc etc..
As someone who has lost count of all his google email ids and Google+ profiles, I'm telling you that that's just not true. They unified Google sign-ons, and that's all. You can always create another Google/Gmail id to comment "anonymously", or even make and post new videos.
If you don't get why this is a problem, then at least do us the kindness of not being obstructive to people who do. Figure it out. it's not hard.
It's like saying "Well, what's the problem? if you don't like it just delete all your youtube videos and discard the years of investment you've made into your youtube identity"
Google is not providing the option of having a youtube account that is not linked to a google+ account, and not providing the option of having that google+ account have a pseudonym. They are saying to all the people who are already established on youtube that the jig is up: You must reveal who you really are, now, or leave. It's an unfair ultimatum to people on youtube who have maintained anonymity for legitimate reasons.
No, you don't have to delete or discard anything. Figure it out. It's not hard. And do us the kindness of not being a troll to those of us who have.
Heck, some of my "names" are just a random, unpronounceable string of letters.
The engineers step back, the marketers take over. Seems to be unavoidable for any economically successful company.
The conversion to Google+ comments is voluntary on Blogger, and old comments don't get converted. Why shouldn't people posting on YouTube be able to choose between the trollish-but-established culture of YouTube or the cleaner, less pseudonymous Google+?
Fun fact: During the deletion process, Google says they'll "attempt to remove your data over the next few weeks" I assume they throw up their hands after a few nanoseconds, and just store it all anyway.
Haha.
What's the new procedure to achieve this? Thanks!
"Update your account Create a public Google+ profile and get great new features in Gmail"
Their warning says the following: "You won't be able to use the "Sign in with Google" button to log in to third-party apps."
In the real world, probably not, but at least it gives people the satisfaction of having felt that they may be sending a message.
I just deleted everything. Seriously google, fuck you.
I cannot, however, use Hangouts. Which is annoying as I like the new emojis
How many people here complain about Google plus but also:
* pay out the arse for Apple products and, * have no problems giving facebook the exact details they tell horror stories about?