I Hate Google Plus. I Really Hate Google Plus

Now when one gives a friend a link to Picasa albums, it redirects instead to Google+ and as a result, long captions are cut off, album descriptions are not shown, album maps and photo locations are not shown, etc. We already know Google+ is a load of dog crap, but why does Google have to destroy Picasa as well?

Mild Surprise: Deleted Picasa Photos Show up in Google Docs Trash

I was looking at my Google Docs trash and noticed a number of images. They appear to be images deleted from Picasa. Picasa's delete dialog still uses the term 'delete' rather than 'trash', but it no longer warns that the action is irreversible.

Google Attempting to Coerce Picasa Users

For the past few weeks I have been prompted by Picasa to link my photos to my Google profile. This nagware appears every time I visit Picasa. It also appears I cannot comment on even my own photos without linking my Picasa account with my Google profile. I got rid of the nagging (or so it seems) by deleting my Google profile. It seems I've done this before.

Google has no regard whatsoever for its users' privacy.