Google removes the obligation to subscribe to a Google+ account with Gmail

Google has removed the need to subscribe to the social network owner in the registration procedure on Gmail. Until now, Google required the subscription of Google+ users that recorded an account with Gmail. Through a silent update, the Mountain View giant now allows you to omit step by not requiring the user to enter the most – unfortunate – social network owner.

If you try to register a new Gmail account, you can, in particular, click on the new button ” No, thanks ” in the page of ” Google+ public account creation. ” The choice involves some compromises: no accounts on social network applications will not be able to vote on the Play Store, or comment on the content on YouTube.

The news was reported in a first moment of WordStream, and was then confirmed to blogger Larry Kim from a Google spokesperson: ” In reality, we have updated the procedures for enrollment in the first days of September. Users can now create a public profile during recording or later, if and when they share public content for the first time (such as a review of a restaurant, post YouTube videos or Google+. ”

The policies of Google+ are becoming less restrictive. The first maneuvers dating back to last April after Vin Gundotra, one of the main architects of the social service of Google, has left the company after staying there for eight years. Last July Hangouts no longer has requested the subscription to the service, while there has been talk recently of a possible separation of photographic services from Google social platform.

The inscription on Google+ was a requirement for all new users Google since January 2012, the new will decide whether to participate in the social network of the company, or if you decline the offer.