How do I stop Google +?

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EliteRetard

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Mar 6, 2006
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Am I the only one who has never used a Google product?

Never used a single social media thing either. Facebook and whatever was before that or before that (I have no idea).

I don't even know why I would want to or what they all do.
 

SparkyJJO

Lifer
May 16, 2002
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How google knows who my friends are, is what makes this thing so creepy.

Because you gave them info somewhere along the line.

I (grudgingly) set up my Google+ account because I needed it to do the Hangouts group chat at work. I spent the extra 5-10 min making sure everything possible was turned off on Google+ as I don't plan to use it and I don't want random stuff finding its way there automatically. End result is Google doesn't know any more now than they did before, or who my friends are aside from my general email contacts list (which also has a bunch of work clients/businesses/etc mixed in as I never organized it seeing as I know who everyone is anyway).

Am I the only one who has never used a Google product?

Impossible. You have a Youtube link in your sig.
 

Miramonti

Lifer
Aug 26, 2000
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Am I the only one who has never used a Google product?

Never used a single social media thing either. Facebook and whatever was before that or before that (I have no idea).

I don't even know why I would want to or what they all do.

*golf clap*

(not that I believe you've never googled.)
 

Pacfanweb

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Jan 2, 2000
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Doesn't mean I've used any Google product, or ever had any account slightly related to them.

Yes it does. Youtube IS a Google product. YOU put that link in your sig, which means you likely know what the video is, and you would've had to have used Youtube.
 

mizzou

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Jan 2, 2008
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lol nice video, sums up how i feel. Its amazing how badly they botched google+ it had an opportunity, hut each step they made seemed like the wrong one.

google + was a sinking megaship that they still try to save for some unknown reason.
 

sportage

Lifer
Feb 1, 2008
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Google wants to own you.
Facebook wants to own you.
Apple wants to own you and tell you what products you can own.
War is hell.....
 

Fritzo

Lifer
Jan 3, 2001
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Am I the only one who has never used a Google product?

Never used a single social media thing either. Facebook and whatever was before that or before that (I have no idea).

I don't even know why I would want to or what they all do.

Mom?
 

FelixDeCat

Lifer
Aug 4, 2000
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Im thinking of hiring a tough, smart, lawyer to sue them for forcing that google+ crap on us. I hear they have lots of money available for the taking.
 

Doppel

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It is annoying, and the simple answer is you can't. You can try and jump through hoops endlessly but at some point google's incessant fucking queries as to the matter will catch up with you and you will be hooked up and that's that.
 

Fritzo

Lifer
Jan 3, 2001
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Im thinking of hiring a tough, smart, lawyer to sue them for forcing that google+ crap on us. I hear they have lots of money available for the taking.

Maybe if you win they'll refund all the money you pay for their services!
 

M0oG0oGaiPan

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boycott google and use other products. start a movement.

bing's search is actually not bad at this point. youtube is so damn slow most of the time anyway. so many alternatives.
 

KeithP

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Jun 15, 2000
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Listen, and understand. That Gogle+ is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

:)

-KeithP
 

TuxDave

Lifer
Oct 8, 2002
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I feel your pain. It's been shoved on me and I seriously have no idea when I ever agreed to a Google+ account. If it wasn't for my YouTube subscriptions I probably would just abandon Google all together.
 

Puppies04

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Apr 25, 2011
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Google are starting to piss me off, I wish they would just straight up violate me this extended foreplay is getting tedious.
 

KeithP

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Jun 15, 2000
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Listen, and understand. That Gogle+ is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

:)

-KeithP
 

Puppies04

Diamond Member
Apr 25, 2011
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Google are starting to piss me off, I wish they would just straight up violate me this extended foreplay is getting tedious.
 

reallyscrued

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Jul 28, 2004
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Listen, and understand. That Gogle+ is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

Quoted for awesomeness.


I would have also accepted:

Google...I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid... you're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to cancel my account, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.
 

BikeJunkie

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Google+ has pushed me toward Outlook.com. So far I like it and the smartphone app is great.

I just got so damn sick of Google+ crap everywhere even though I don't actively use it at all, along with the constant nags/hints/wtfever getting in the way of me just reading my friggin' mail.
 

nickbits

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Mar 10, 2008
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I have created and deleted my g+ profile many times due to "accidently" signing up.

However since google voice is migrating to hangouts, which requires g+, I have decided to give in and let my g+ profile exist.
 

TuxDave

Lifer
Oct 8, 2002
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It is annoying, and the simple answer is you can't. You can try and jump through hoops endlessly but at some point google's incessant fucking queries as to the matter will catch up with you and you will be hooked up and that's that.

Tell me about it. I think I deleted my Google+ account two or three times already only to rediscover that I must've somehow resigned back up via the millions of inquiries to join.

The exception now is that it's threatening to delete my YouTube stuff if I cancel it again so I guess I finally lose.
 

ShadowOfMyself

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Jun 22, 2006
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And you know what else pisses me off? How every damn site nowadays is updating their layout for smartphones (which Youtube just did, all centered and neat)

So here I am with a widescreen monitor, and half of my screen is showing a bunch of nothing... Meanwhile, the center column is a clusterfuck of stuff that looks like a jigsaw puzzle

I know I sound like an angry old man and Im probably one out of ten people in the world without a smartphone but yeah... I cant be the only one who thinks these new layouts suck