14 DAY TRIAL // Google has just made an announcement almost all of its users were expecting, revealing that it will slowly start pulling back the Google+ profile requirement from its services.
As you may know, or not, signing up for various Google services in the past few years did not only require users to have a Google account but a Google+ profile as well.
This will not be the case anymore, the company announcing its plans to slowly fade out any unwanted Google+ integration, a decision it made based on user feedback.
"While we got certain things right, we made a few choices that, in hindsight, we’ve needed to rethink," said Bradley Horowitz, Google's VP of Streams, Photos, and Sharing, the man theoretically in charge of Google+.
"So in the coming months, a Google Account will be all you’ll need to share content, communicate with contacts, create a YouTube channel and more."
YouTube will be the first service to benefit from this change of policy
In fact, YouTube is the service where you'll first notice these changes, and for starters, the comments made on YouTube videos won't appear on Google+ profiles anymore, and comments and shares made on Google+ won't spam the YouTube comment section.
This change has already been made to both networks, and in the coming months, users will also see their YouTube and Google+ profiles completely untied.
This means they'll be able to sign up for a YouTube channel or post comments without having to prove their real-world identity using a Google+ profile, and they'll be also able to remove their current Google+ profile link from their YouTube page.
These were actually the most annoying Google+ integrations of them all, and in the past they irked many regular YouTube users and content creators alike.