You can do that by following the "Deleting my entire Google+ profile" procedure. I've done it few weeks ago and unless Google has changed which services get deleted along, you have nothing to worry about.
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?
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.
You're basically saying he has no proof, and therefore what he said only amounts to an opinion, and can be dismissed as such.
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!"
I wasn't talking to you though, unless you're a sock-puppeteer, but whatever.
> The thing is, I was responding to this:
>> This is a very accurate description
Is it not?
>>> 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.
At any rate, my point still stands. This is not a formal debate.
This is a discussion, not a peer reviewed paper, which would be obvious to anyone, but anyway I wouldn't waste my time discussing with HN idiots anymore.
Here's my argument: more traffic/users/signups equals more money. It's simple.
Your Google+ profile will be deleted along with other services and data that depend on your Google+ profile.
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.
The way I unlinked was:
1) Account Settings ->
2) Overview ->
3) Right next to your avatar there should be a link to disconnect G+ from your youtube profile.
If you recently joined, you can't. I just went through this yet again, and they now have a "14 day period" where you can unlink. After that, as far as I can tell, it's permanent.
I got out by using the well-hidden setting in G+. There wasn't any G+ data to delete, though, so I don't know whether it just "deactivates" your profile the way otehrs do.
