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Well, that misses the entire point here. µG is "Google services", just a rather minimal implementation. You're talking about an entirely different scenario.
They sure can. The identity may not have your clear name attached to it but that's of little relevance; it's still linked to you. Pseudonymous != anonymous.
There's tonnes of ways to map between pseudonymous profiles and real names if you wanted to but there's no real need to do that as they can deeply violate your privacy for immense profit without any clear names involved. That's the perverse thing about these data krakens.
The Google accounts' data itself should actually be deleted if you're in a jurisdiction with half-way effective privacy laws. The shadow profiles they collect on you to this day however...
It's by no means a bad setup but I don't see much of a privacy win in it w.r.t. outgoing connections. Such DNS-based tracking outside of your home network simply isn't a huge data leak if you're not using known-malicious DNS servers and those can be changed using one dead-simple setting present in pretty much every SOHO gateway.