If you can figure out a way of deleting one's Google+ profile without accidentally nuking Youtube uploads, Picasa images, Gmail etc, do let us know.
Deleting my entire Google+ profile
Your Google+ profile will be deleted along with other services and data that depend on your Google+ profile.
What to do:
Sign in to Google+. Click on your full name or email address in the top-right corner of your screen. In the Account Management section, click Delete profile and remove related Google+ features. Select Delete your entire Google profile.
One question: with everything seemingly requiring a google+ account these days - what other services here do you end up getting rid of?
Of course, for the people that matter (especially advertisers) can see through it.
Some content producers are already moving away from YT, at the same time AdSense is the one that still pays the best.
About your question, I would answer based on who's the boss of whom.
Here's my argument: more traffic/users/signups equals more money. It's simple.
Well, you certainly know how to be convincing.
The thing is, it doesn't matter whether he's got proof or not. He's free to present his thoughts, and you're free to ignore them, or perhaps more productively: consider them.
Extremely few discussions are formal debates. So instead of behaving like you're in one, how about just listening to what people have to say, and evaluating whether you think there's any merit to it, or whether it might be true, etc?
Someone says something, you react to it. Then you say something, and someone reacts to what you said.
Now let's go through his post as an example:
>>> Of course, for the people that matter (especially advertisers) can see through it.
- "Hmm.. Well, I guess that's certainly possible. Perhaps even likely! After all, lots of people are complaining about Google+, and it really does seem like Google is doing their best to count everyone using YouTube as a Google+ user. Advertisers are likely to notice what's going on, just like you and me on Hacker News, and they won't like it."
>>> Some content producers are already moving away from YT, at the same time AdSense is the one that still pays the best.
- "I suppose moving away from YT would make sense for an advertiser that's fed up with Google's behaviour. Hmm.. I wonder if AdSense actually does pay the best. Maybe this guy knows something I don't, or maybe his claim is inaccurate. Oh well!"
.. Maybe something like that?
> This is a very accurate description
Which you've very conveniently omitted.
> The thing is, I was responding to this:
>> This is a very accurate description
>>> I think Google is trying to inflate its G+ numbers in
order to seem competitive with Facebook, so its
basically a dick-size contest with users getting caught
in the middle.
I wonder what would happen to my old Blogspot blog that has hundreds of entries. And photos in that blog, that were uploaded to Picasa through Blogspot before G+ even existed.
I can see that Blogspot album in G+, so it might be data associated with G+ and it would be deleted. We spent hundreds of hours writing and taking those pictures, so it would be a shame to have all that hard work deleted because of a vague what gets deleted description.