Google makes it easier to disable Buzz

February 17, 2010 by Abi  
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pStill in a tizzy over disabling Google Buzz?/p pLast week we took you through a laborious a title=”Buzz off: Disabling Google Buzz — Thursday, Feb 11, 2010″ href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10451703-2.html”step-by-step process to disable Buzz/a, Google’s new social network. Google’s engineers made some quick changes as a result of the a title=”What Google needs to learn from Buzz backlash — Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010″ href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10454683-265.html”backlash/a, including a security flaw affecting a title=”Google patches Buzz for Mobile security flaw — Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010″ href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10454982-265.html”mobile Buzz users/a, a setup process that has you manually accepting followers, and an easier way to disable Buzz if you want to give it the heave-ho./p div class=”cnet-image-div image-large float-none” style=”width: 600px” img class=”cnet-image” src=”/i/bto/20100217/GoogleBuzz_Disable_600×300.png” alt=”Disable Google Buzz–updated” width=”600″ height=”297″ / p class=”image-caption”Google finally lets you disable Buzz through the Settings./p span class=”image-credit”(Credit: Screenshot by Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)/span /div pNow when you click the still-tiny hyperlink at the bottom of your Gmail screen that turns Buzz off, you’ll be taken to your Settings screen, where you’ll have options about displaying Buzz in Gmail, and even disabling Google Buzz completely. Choose this latter option to nix Buzz in Gmail, unfollow buddies, break off any connected sites associated with your name, and eradicate both your Google Profile and Buzz posts./p pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10455087-2.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Webware/a/p

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