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Re:Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down by jlebar on Monday July 20, 2015 @07:07PM (#9919691)
I'm not excusing this -- it annoys me too -- but you can set up a user style [1] to hide this element.

[1] e.g. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/stylish/

Re:Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down by micampe on Monday July 20, 2015 @07:45PM (#9919824)
I did that for a while to hide the random “notifications” from people I had never heard about that appeared every other day on google.com. I had to change the custom style so many times because they changed the ids/classes every other week that now I just logged out of my Google account to not see it.
Re:Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down by aiiane on Monday July 20, 2015 @09:19PM (#9920109)
There's a better way now. Click the notifications bell and then in the popup, click on the gear icon - you can check and uncheck boxes to customize which Google products show notifications there.