You're not wrong. It's a pain in the ass. Only Google product I willingly use is YouTube (no viable competitor). My schooling forces me to use a gmail account

You're not wrong. It's a pain in the ass. Only Google product I willingly use is YouTube (no viable competitor). My schooling forces me to use a gmail account. I've successfully excised their products from my life otherwise. Email: fastmail Music: Apple Music Documents: LibreOffice, MS Office Video conferencing: Zoom, Discord (Google cloud, unfortunately) My phone is technically Google (Pixel), but it's operating on Grapheneos