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Re:Ask HN: Google employees, why is G+ more important than y... by chilldream on Sunday November 17, 2013 @10:54PM (#6752405)
So I guess you also missed the part where her comment showed up on her real name and it surprised her?

(and let me ask in advance not to give me that "she may have accidentally clicked some button on one of those popups and given permission" crap. That's like seeing the vampire's fangs in someone's neck and saying "But you invited him over for dinner!")

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Re:Ask HN: Google employees, why is G+ more important than y... by chilldream on Sunday November 17, 2013 @11:08PM (#6752461)
BTW I have my own story about this.

I actually have two Google accounts, my "real" one and the one I use to joke around on video game clips on YouTube. When Google strongarmed the second one into g+, I knew that even if I decided I wanted g+ for some reason, I would never, ever, ever want a g+ page on that YouTube account.

So imagine my surprise when I received an email beginning:

"This email was sent to you because you indicated that you'd like to receive Google+ Pages performance suggestions and updates"

Go to Hell, Google. I asked for no such thing, and if you somehow tricked me into accidentally not opting out of any such thing, you can still go to Hell. So if anyone says g+ tricked them into something, I'm going to believe them barring hard evidence to the contrary.

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