At oneof my previous employers, the CEO and founder had worked at a pretty high level designing some of Google’s first network hardware. Anyhow, we were forbid

At oneof my previous employers, the CEO and founder had worked at a pretty high level designing some of Google’s first network hardware. Anyhow, we were forbidden to use any Google product except search (because we couldn’t NOT use Google search). We even opted for some crappy email self hosted thing that was a constant problem for everyone in the company. It was sort of made clear to us that Gmail at that time was reading/analyzing/storing everything and all of that data was considered more valuable than our search history.