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Yep. All these anti-google complaints sound so useless. What did they expect? These issues are always an entirely self-inflicted problem. Google's terms of service are public, clear, and completely unacceptable. Why people keep using their services is beyond me.


It seemed like a good idea in 2005, and switching costs. But yeah, I bit the bullet and left this year.


Legacy.

For example, my email is in Google. There are things related to e.g. evidence for litigation from many years back. I have documents shared with me in Google Docs.

Google used to be pretty good about "don't do evil." I've degooglified what I can, but I can't degooglify 100%.


It's never too late to switch.


It kind of is. If I want to have legal proof of when I shared a document with someone, I need my Google Docs.

I guess what I should do is stop putting new stuff in Google.


It's not easy to convince everyone to send mail to your new address. Especially the countless random websites where you signed up with the old one.




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