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You don't need a G+ profile for Gmail.

• sp332 15y ago
  I thought you needed to sign up for Gmail and Google+ if you want a Google account now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3489266 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3489266 But actually, there's a way to get a Gmail account without Google+ http://mail.google.com/mail/signup http://mail.google.com/mail/signup and a way to get a Google account without Gmail or Google+ https://accounts.google.com/NewAccount https://accounts.google.com/NewAccount if you know the URLs.
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  • modeless 15y ago
    You don't need to know any special URLs either. All you have to do is stop the signup process after your Gmail account is created (step 1) but before you create your Google+ profile (step 2).
    • lreeves 15y ago
      To be fair probably 99% of people going through the sign-up flow won't realize this.
      • obtu 15y ago
        Then Google will be happy to tell us users don't care about privacy: > The vast majority of users sail through our signup process -- in fact, only about 0.1% submit name appeals.