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Comment by yanw | Hacker News Reader

How is it you figure that this warrants any sort of investigation exactly? I don't see any other issues with this neither: it applies for new signups, existing users aren't required to open G+ account or anything else.

It's funny how people keep getting "shocked and surprised" by obvious moves, what use is it having a profile or a cohesive identity system for all your services if you don't incorporate it into said services or even use it when users sign up?!

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Eventually Google will rollover their existing users and force them to signup for Google Plus. They are already guilty of this strategy when they forced Gmail users to link their youtube accounts.

And because of the danger this poses to your other Google services (get kicked off of Google+, lose them too) that'll be the day I move my Google Docs back to my own systems (they are mostly there because that was the best solution immediately after my apartment was trashed by the Joplin, MO tornado and I'm trying to go Microsoft free) and delete my Google account, assuming that doesn't trash my Google Group subscriptions (which go to my own email address serviced by Fastmail anyway).

lets be clear though... we are talking about google's users, its product, not its payingclients, right? people who are using spmething for free dont have much to complain about from a legal standpoint...... thoug fair enough to ket google know when they have gone too far and migrate elsewhere. google needs users to deliver to its clients..........

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