Once I found out about it, this was what pushed me down the road towards de-googling. I keep the Gmail account around for legacy contacts (had it for like 15 ye

Once I found out about it, this was what pushed me down the road towards de-googling. I keep the Gmail account around for legacy contacts (had it for like 15 years now?!), but I forward it all to my new, independent email account. In theory I like the idea of grepping mail for genuinely useful things. But I don't trust Google to do it. Or any corporation.