Fuck Google+

[kane_magus]

Just deleted my ever-unused Google+ account. The only reason I even made one in the first place was for Youtube-related reasons, given that for a while they had stupidly tied Youtube to Google+. Anyway, Google sent out an email saying they were ending Google+ in April, so I figured I'd just go ahead and help them out and delete it myself right the fuck now. What a goddamn waste of Internet Google+ was from the get go. *weary sigh*

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[kane_magus]

The only thing I miss about Google+ being tied to Youtube was that while it was in place, I actually had the ability to permanently block assholes in the comments on Youtube, i.e. I would never see them or their asinine comments ever again. And, interestingly, even after the Google+ integration was removed, those assholes were still blocked for me, at least as far as I ever saw, which was probably a bug in the system, but no way was I going to report it to Google. No idea if they'll remain blocked once Google+ is gone for good, and I'll never know anyway, since I use browser add-ons to hide/block all Youtube comments these days, because the comment section under any given video is almost never not a river of open sewage.

While I did have to use my real name on the Google+ account, the associated Youtube account was and still is just "KaneMagus," but that may just have had something to do with it having been a preexisting account, I dunno...