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At least for now, you CAN delete only your Google Plus stuff without also removing your Gmail

• Zigurd 13y ago
  That still seems like a very awkward migration path. I'm not sympathetic to the trolls on YT, but some people need a "stuff i will leave behind" model where they don't end up outing themselves.
• dredmorbius 13y ago
  That's fine so long as you trust Google to abide by their word on how they do or don't link or structure their services. The point of the G+ article referenced by the OP that I wrote, is that I had repeatedly responded "no" to the option of linking my (pseudonymous) YouTube account with my (pseudonymous) G+ account, strictly on the merits that I'd used the same (pseudonymous) Gmail account to originally register for both. At the time I'd set each of these services up, they were a freestanding service. I'd created a Gmail account some years back recognizing that having a pseudonymous identity would be useful to me. I later created a YouTube account to be able to access the occasional restricted video. I've occasionally commented on and/or rated videos, but as those actions became increasingly public and accessible, I've periodically purged my content there under that account. And when G+ started up, having first created an account under my real name, I rapidly decided that I didn't want an "identity service", deleted that G+ profile (elements of it remain but I make very little use of them) and switched to a pseudonymous account as my primary persona on that service. Now Google have, against my wishes, elected to merge the previously independent G+ and YouTube accounts. And for the life of me I can't figure out how to un-do that, or to disable the YouTube account entirely. I also no longer trust Google to keep separate aspects of my online existence separate.