I run my own mailserver and use DDG for all my searching. And use GMail as an MUA and am the GSuite administrator for the school I support. Using Google is a

I run my own mailserver and use DDG for all my searching. And use GMail as an MUA and am the GSuite administrator for the school I support. Using Google is a trade-off, and there are definitely services they provide where the trade-off is worth it for me. Your mileage appears to vary. First-party isolation definitely kicks the needle across towards Google only having data I'm happy for them to have.