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Yeah ... speaking of "social spam" does anyone else get a "make new friends on Google+" page about 10% of the times you try to go to plus.google.com ? The persi

by BruceIV 14y ago

Yeah ... speaking of "social spam" does anyone else get a "make new friends on Google+" page about 10% of the times you try to go to plus.google.com ? The persistent annoyance of that page was a major reason I went back to Facebook from G+, and now just use it as a Skype replacement.

protothomas 14y ago
I honestly thought from the title that the post would be a mea culpa for just that.
rm999 14y ago
They ask me to upload a photo of myself 100% of the time I visit the front page of google+. I actively avoid it now.
OGinparadise 14y ago
Everything they do lately seems designed to trick you into doing something, signing for a Google service, joining G+, clicking an ad by mistake, downloading Chrome ... What the hell happened to the Google we knew?
- jbigelow76 14y ago
  Quarterly earnings reports
- papsosouid 14y ago
  >What the hell happened to the Google we knew? It never existed, and people were pointing that out this whole time.
fryguy 14y ago
More than 10% of the time on facebook, I get a "try out these new games your friends are playing" (even though I've rarely played games on facebook), which takes up roughly the same amount of space as the google+ one does.
- BruceIV 14y ago
  This G+ one fills the entire screen, and you have to find and click the "no thank you get out of my face please" button to get to the social feed; if you want to check that multiple times a day (like is typical Facebook usage), it gets to be a major source of friction, which Google usually hacks out with an axe anywhere they possibly can ...
- shadowmint 14y ago
  What are you talking about? You've clearly never seen the google ones. It's a GIGANTIC POPUP full of Click here! Join now! Follow ME! (Or like today, a new full page of Do Not Want: "Never miss another post Get notifications whenever important people in your life share something new on Google+" <-- how about you just let me into the site ok? Come on...) Facebook is spammy, but G+ is just beyond a joke.
jamesbritt 14y ago
I got that so often I wrote a Greasemonkey script to retry the URL if I got that page.
JoshTriplett 14y ago
I find it annoying that I can't even browse someone else's G+ page when logged in; I have to log out first.

by BruceIV 14y ago

protothomas 14y ago

I honestly thought from the title that the post would be a mea culpa for just that.

rm999 14y ago

They ask me to upload a photo of myself 100% of the time I visit the front page of google+. I actively avoid it now.

OGinparadise 14y ago

Everything they do lately seems designed to trick you into doing something, signing for a Google service, joining G+, clicking an ad by mistake, downloading Chrome ... What the hell happened to the Google we knew?

jbigelow76 14y ago
Quarterly earnings reports
papsosouid 14y ago
>What the hell happened to the Google we knew? It never existed, and people were pointing that out this whole time.

fryguy 14y ago

More than 10% of the time on facebook, I get a "try out these new games your friends are playing" (even though I've rarely played games on facebook), which takes up roughly the same amount of space as the google+ one does.

BruceIV 14y ago
This G+ one fills the entire screen, and you have to find and click the "no thank you get out of my face please" button to get to the social feed; if you want to check that multiple times a day (like is typical Facebook usage), it gets to be a major source of friction, which Google usually hacks out with an axe anywhere they possibly can ...
shadowmint 14y ago
What are you talking about? You've clearly never seen the google ones. It's a GIGANTIC POPUP full of Click here! Join now! Follow ME! (Or like today, a new full page of Do Not Want: "Never miss another post Get notifications whenever important people in your life share something new on Google+" <-- how about you just let me into the site ok? Come on...) Facebook is spammy, but G+ is just beyond a joke.

jamesbritt 14y ago

I got that so often I wrote a Greasemonkey script to retry the URL if I got that page.

JoshTriplett 14y ago

I find it annoying that I can't even browse someone else's G+ page when logged in; I have to log out first.