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No More Google+, They Finally Got the Hint

posted by janrinok on Monday August 03 2015, @08:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the nonplussed dept.

SuperCharlie writes:

A sigh of relief has been heard across the Internet as behemoth Google has finally relented in it's ever intruding necessity to have a Google+ account from every service and function from signing up for Gmail to posting comments on YouTube.

From Slate to The Verge and everywhere in between there is dancing in the streets as Google finally got the message... no, not today Google, I don't want Plus. Plus will not be going away, it will become it's own property, left to stand on it's own, and unhooked from every Google service under the sun.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Taibhsear on Monday August 03 2015, @06:17PM

    by Taibhsear (1464) on Monday August 03 2015, @06:17PM (#217481)

    So all those Google plus accounts that were generated automatically by just having email... are those getting automatically deleted or will we have to do that manually? I still get spam mail for posts from people in my email contact list even though I have no friends or circles or whatever and have never used Google plus.

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  • (Score: 2) by JeanCroix on Wednesday August 05 2015, @01:30PM

    by JeanCroix (573) on Wednesday August 05 2015, @01:30PM (#218490)
    Yeah, this. Can I now delete the G+ account without also getting rid of the associated Gmail account? Has the umbilical been snipped?

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by JeanCroix on Wednesday August 05 2015, @01:50PM

      by JeanCroix (573) on Wednesday August 05 2015, @01:50PM (#218506)
      Following up on my own question, the answer is yes. I just successfully deleted it, but my Gmail is intact.