Thanks for sharing your experience. A long time ago, it was possible to remove Google products and services on a case by case basis. There were public URL fro

Thanks for sharing your experience. A long time ago, it was possible to remove Google products and services on a case by case basis. There were public URL from which you could request the deletion of your data. You could find it at http://ruscoe.net/google/google-account-service-names/ http://ruscoe.net/google/google-account-service-names/ ("Google Account Service Names" link, which now redirects to some notice about the blogger's life). The list was crowdsourced by Blogoscoped's members and maintained by Tony Ruscoe (who made the list unaccessible right after being hired by Google). You can find some in these "EditUserServiceData" URLs on this post: http://blog.ruscoe.net/2006/06/google-rs2-ssd-and-mobile-download.asp http://blog.ruscoe.net/2006/06/google-rs2-ssd-and-mobile-dow... Times have changed a lot (for the worst) since 2008...