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by yukichan 4440 days ago
You can just not use Google+. I like hangouts for what it's worth. I like that you can plugin stuff into it (basically an iframe).

The YouTube change is really sad though. YouTube is stellar in some many ways, but the Google+ integration is definitely a black mark. I'm sorry there are so many trolls on YouTube comments, but I don't want my public activity on YouTube to be visible with my real name. I've since stopped participating in comments, sharing, and uploading, even though I want to participate more. I want to upload game videos I've recorded, but I don't want to do it using my real name and API integration with Google+ pages and Google+ names like on twitch is broken. I still consume content on YouTube, but besides watching I hardly do anything anymore. I don't want a comment I made on a YouTube video to be searchable 20 years from now by someone who uses my real name (an easily searchable name).