It's not about centralization, imo. An out of control AI will be able to harvest this data from wherever - Google just has the best starting set and the most ro

It's not about centralization, imo. An out of control AI will be able to harvest this data from wherever - Google just has the best starting set and the most robust data stream to make the initial leap, I think. But I agree with moving away from Google as much as possible, though FF is dubious - it's both a mediocre browser and will, as you say, introduce ads.