For a time I had a slightly different perspective.
I did my utmost to actually use Google services for everything I could, on the assumption that as there will almost certainly be tracking going on at least that way only one company had my data. By de-Googling I would be spreading my information across a wider catchment and hence increasing my exposure, whereas by being all-in on Google I kept tighter control.
As Google has become more and more untenable (as well as falling behind on their offerings) I've been de-Googling for a while. All my email is now custom-domain Fastmail, for Drive I use PCloud, for search it's DuckDuckGo, for browser it's Brave or Safari, and I've stopped all 3rd party analytics on principle.
The hold-out, and I think it is probably acceptable, is Go :) - next stop is to de-Amazon.
I did my utmost to actually use Google services for everything I could, on the assumption that as there will almost certainly be tracking going on at least that way only one company had my data. By de-Googling I would be spreading my information across a wider catchment and hence increasing my exposure, whereas by being all-in on Google I kept tighter control.
As Google has become more and more untenable (as well as falling behind on their offerings) I've been de-Googling for a while. All my email is now custom-domain Fastmail, for Drive I use PCloud, for search it's DuckDuckGo, for browser it's Brave or Safari, and I've stopped all 3rd party analytics on principle.
The hold-out, and I think it is probably acceptable, is Go :) - next stop is to de-Amazon.