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The number of unread Facebook messages I have is not printed on 30% of all the web pages I visit. This is what I find so irritating about Google+, it's everywhere it doesn't need to be. Comparisons to things like Twitter and FB fall flat for this reason.

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I'm not excusing this -- it annoys me too -- but you can set up a user style [1] to hide this element.

[1] e.g. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/stylish/

I did that for a while to hide the random “notifications” from people I had never heard about that appeared every other day on google.com. I had to change the custom style so many times because they changed the ids/classes every other week that now I just logged out of my Google account to not see it.

There's a better way now. Click the notifications bell and then in the popup, click on the gear icon - you can check and uncheck boxes to customize which Google products show notifications there.

> The number of unread Facebook messages I have is not printed on 30% of all the web pages I visit.

I've only seen this printed in google search and google plus, not on any other website. Maybe it's an extension of yours?

If it's google search you're complaining about, just log out, or use something like DDG.

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