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by JSZZHlmumeUE 4594 days ago
What is the frequency with which these prompts to connect show up? I use youtube daily, G+ not at all and I've only seen them twice. These instances were at least a few months apart. In both cases, I opted out of connecting my profiles and nothing has happened since. Are some people getting these prompts more often? Why? Maybe someone on the G+ team can explain this.

without deleting my entire G+ account and profile

I don't use G+/FB but even if I did, I have a hard time understanding this mentality. I wouldn't think twice about deleting any of social media profiles and even in places like HN where it's not possible to delete profiles, I just throwaway old profiles and start from scratch. Maybe I'm just paranoid but the last thing I want are my random musings being psychoanalyzed by nutters on the internet.

And as far as Gmail goes, you should be backing it up offline so that you can take your data and leave any time you want. This literally takes only 3 minutes to setup if you already use Thunderbird.
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Macha 4594 days ago
The prompt used to show up everytime you log in. If you use multiple computers, an authenticator or multiple accounts, that is quite frequently.

Since YT comments are now G+ comments, I believe it now shows up every time you try to interact with anything, such as like/favourite/comment etc.

I turned my YT account into a G+ page when the option became available as a way to get rid of the prompts without using my real name on YT.

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JSZZHlmumeUE 4594 days ago
I just liked and commented and nothing happened. I even left the 'post on G+' checkbox enabled and it still doesn't show up on my G+ profile. I've setup youtube to use a pseudonym, btw.
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dbpatterson 4594 days ago
Errm. How do you get everyone to start using a different email address in 3 minutes?

This has been their brilliant (and awful - I don't use gmail, and _hate_ this) move - to get people to use an address@gmail.com, so there is no way you can ever take it anywhere else (because even if you want to forward, you have to keep the account active).

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JSZZHlmumeUE 4594 days ago
The three minutes was for how long it takes to setup Thunderbird to backup your Gmail.

I'm very happy with Gmail and it's way better than all the other e-mail services that various entities force me to use, but the point I was making is that I could move out of Gmail with all my data if I wanted to.

> so there is no way you can ever take it anywhere else

The standard solution is to setup a google apps on your domain.

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