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Re:Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his fri... by jazzychad on Friday February 12, 2010 @05:15AM (#1120205)
I have never created a google profile either. Is simply clicking "turn off buzz" at the bottom of gmail sufficient to completely opt-out of all of this nonsense? ...because that's exactly what I want to do at this point.
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Re:Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his fri... by bozmac on Friday February 12, 2010 @05:22AM (#1120213)
You'll have to block people who are following you first
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Re:Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his fri... by roqetman on Friday February 12, 2010 @09:21AM (#1120581)
No, if you don't have a public profile, then no-one will be following you.
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Re:Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his fri... by bozmac on Friday February 12, 2010 @10:03AM (#1120678)
I didn't have a public profile but Google still automatically added people who were following me. I had to block them one-by-one.
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