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Re:Google can use your name and photo alongside online ads by grbalaffa on Friday October 11, 2013 @02:10PM (#6534825)
Good luck with "avoiding" it. It's getting harder and harder to use Google without using Google+ (clearly intentional), and it's nearly equally hard to use the internet without using Google.
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Re:Google can use your name and photo alongside online ads by cliffu on Friday October 11, 2013 @02:18PM (#6534896)
What do I need Google for? DDG works ok for discovery, subreddits and HN aggregate news, and SO handles all of my programming questions.
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Re:Google can use your name and photo alongside online ads by a3n on Friday October 11, 2013 @02:18PM (#6534890)
Just don't log in when you search.

Oh, email? There's lots of other providers.

It's not hard at all.

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Re:Google can use your name and photo alongside online ads by conradfr on Friday October 11, 2013 @02:18PM (#6534889)
It's quite infuriating with Google Apps accounts that my company just transitioned to.

It also de facto makes you constantly switching between accounts, which tends to be annoying.

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Re:Google can use your name and photo alongside online ads by ape4 on Friday October 11, 2013 @02:13PM (#6534849)
Yes, this bugs me. You Tube comments will be G+ if they aren't already.
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