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You cant. That's the problem. You automatically get that profile by having a gmail account. They're trying to force you to use that profile for YouTube as well.

by geuis 13y ago

You cant. That's the problem. You automatically get that profile by having a gmail account. They're trying to force you to use that profile for YouTube as well. Google has these incredibly valuable products and that work great separately but they're trying to mash everything together.

_delirium 13y ago
A bit of a bait-and-switch in that respect as well. I probably wouldn't have signed up for Gmail if I were making the choice today. But years ago, it was just an ad-supported email service, and seemed like a pretty reasonable choice. It was better than Yahoo Mail or Hotmail. When I signed up for it, there was absolutely no indication that it was a social network or going to become one, and in fact their rhetoric around it strongly suggested that it would not be (there was a lot of reassurance about how the only use of your data would be for the automated ad-targeting). And as a webmail service, it's still pretty good. But I'm uncomfortable by all this stuff I've now been involuntarily opted-in to as a result of opening a Gmail account. And as these things go, having accumulated several years of use of it, it's now going to be some hassle to move away from it.
abalone 13y ago
False. You can delete just your G+ profile here: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1044503?hl=en https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1044503?hl=en
- fibbery 13y ago
  I wish that were true. I have never enabled Google plus, yet there is a profile page out there for me. So when I got to plus.google.com I get the "Set up your account!" page but there is a link for me at https://profiles.google.com/[long https://profiles.google.com/[long number string] that has my full name and gender on it and I can't find any way to delete that profile.
- davidgerard 13y ago
  This turns out not to actually stay deleted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747045 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747045

by geuis 13y ago

_delirium 13y ago

A bit of a bait-and-switch in that respect as well. I probably wouldn't have signed up for Gmail if I were making the choice today. But years ago, it was just an ad-supported email service, and seemed like a pretty reasonable choice. It was better than Yahoo Mail or Hotmail. When I signed up for it, there was absolutely no indication that it was a social network or going to become one, and in fact their rhetoric around it strongly suggested that it would not be (there was a lot of reassurance about how the only use of your data would be for the automated ad-targeting). And as a webmail service, it's still pretty good. But I'm uncomfortable by all this stuff I've now been involuntarily opted-in to as a result of opening a Gmail account. And as these things go, having accumulated several years of use of it, it's now going to be some hassle to move away from it.

abalone 13y ago

False. You can delete just your G+ profile here: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1044503?hl=en https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1044503?hl=en

fibbery 13y ago
I wish that were true. I have never enabled Google plus, yet there is a profile page out there for me. So when I got to plus.google.com I get the "Set up your account!" page but there is a link for me at https://profiles.google.com/[long https://profiles.google.com/[long number string] that has my full name and gender on it and I can't find any way to delete that profile.
davidgerard 13y ago
This turns out not to actually stay deleted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747045 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747045