Google drops Google Plus from other services

It looks like the end may be in sight for Google+; Google has dropped the need to use a Google+ account to make use of its other services.

Google’s Vice-president of Streams, Photos, and Sharing, Brad Horowitz, wrote a Google+ update to make the announcement. “We’re going to retire Google+ as the mechanism by which people share and engage within other Google products,” he wrote.

Previously, Google introduced the need to log into a Google+ account to use its products. One of the most irritating for users was the need to have a Google+ account to comment or interact with videos on YouTube. Users had been doing this just fine for years before Google+.