I see that in my Gmail contacts there are duplicated contacts that come from Google+ as below snapshot.
I really don't want those contacts appear in my Gmail. How can I get rid of it?
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The previously-posted answers are no longer correct.
On the General tab under Settings is Create contacts for auto-complete:
- When I send a message to a new person, add them to Other Contacts so that I can auto-complete to them next time
- I'll add contacts myself
Screen shot:
The second option will prevent Gmail from auto-creating contacts for you.
If it is not long ago, that you synced there is an option in your contacts:
You can restore your contact list to the state that it was in at any point within the past 30 days. This is a great way to recover deleted contacts, undo an import or undo a merge.
I now restored the contacts to the point 30 days ago, see
Restore contacts: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1069522?hl=en-GB
That was a time, when I had no contacts in my list yet.
Now the loads of contacts, I synced from my phone are gone in the takeout too.
(Though you cannot be sure, google isn't keeping them somewhere else)
This is not a solution if you used Google contacts for a long time already
Maybe we find a solution for How do I obfuscate all contacts in Gmail?
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Best Answer
Short of deleting your Google+ profile, you cannot. There is no setting within Gmail to remove or hide that set of contacts.
Some custom CSS might allow you to hide them, but they won't actually be removed.