While I appreciate the idea there is never anything truly "free from Google." At this point I would rather pay to self-host or get fewer but sufficient feature

While I appreciate the idea there is never anything truly "free from Google." At this point I would rather pay to self-host or get fewer but sufficient features from an entity that allows me to control my data, including prohibiting it from ever ending up in marketing/data-mining systems owned by Microsoft, Google, Facebook, et al.