Yep, I don’t think badly of Google mostly because I don’t think of them at all. While I was deleting my Reddit account a decided I’d try moving off of big tech companies products as much as practical and even after almost 20 years with GMail as my primary mail host I just don’t have anything else left in their ecosystem. Over the years I’ve used a lot of their products, but they kept killing them off (Picasa, Google+, Code, Reader, various chat clients), so I’ve found mostly self-hosted alternatives.
I guess they’re still making money hand-over-fist so whatever they’re doing it must work for them, but none of it is useful for me.
Google is still the number one search engine on the net, and it wouldn’t surprise me if Google Ads is still one of the most widely used online ad services, so yeah, they’ll continue to make bank.
You can also look at the data they have on you used to personalize ads. Their info on me is so hilariously bad that I stopped caring lol. But it does feel nicer to have degoogled my internet experience last year, so there’s that.
