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Okay, this is too much. Forcing people to make their profiles public so that Google could do their next failing social experiment on the top of them?

Google does not delete the emails I deleted, that's how much storage they've got, why would they delete my profile? Obviously not a storage issue. I mean WTF google, seriosly. You are becoming as evil as any other bigco could be.



What do you mean? They see private profiles as pointless and made the business decision to not support this feature in the future.

They're not forcing anyone to have a public profile. You know what Facebook would have done? They would have simply made all private profiles public without any previous notification. That would have been evil. Instead, Google has chosen to follow a path where the default action doesn't compromise anyone's privacy and they have given ample time for people to decide whether they want to make their profile public or not.

From what I see, what they've done is pretty much the Right Thing To Do.




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