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I'm curious, why are you so vehemently opposed to having an account? You could very easily just not provide public profile information, never post, and never ad

• viraptor 13y ago
  Not sure about plg's reason, but I will avoid ever creating a plus account due to their strange policies for name verification. I'm not sure if it was improved lately or not, but many accounts were suspended previously when names didn't look English as far as I remember. Mine's definitely not an English one and it contains some non-ascii characters. Avoiding services which require plus accounts is much easier than dealing with potential account suspension.
• plg 13y ago
  which begs the question ... why do I need a G+ account? It's not like I am asking google to implement some ability that has previously been not implemented... rather google has decided to eliminate a little piece of choice ... or freedom ... or whatever you want to call it ... for their users. Why? Because it's better for them. Which brings one back to something that has been posted many many times ... you are not the customer, you are the product. As long as you're OK with that, go for it... but my bet is that the vast majority of google's users have little concept of the issue of customer vs product. I'm just a little sad to see google take another step towards being a faceboob instead of taking one step away from them.
  • turing 13y ago
    "why do I need a G+ account?" "Because it's better for them." You've answered your own question. I also believe that the customer vs product issue is much more nuanced than most people portray it to be.