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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'll use them all until they don't work for me and my processes. Then I'll do something else. But it won't be because of some perceived greed that I stop using the free services the giants offer.
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To be clear, the main reason I'm trying to mostly divest myself of Google is because the changes they are making are breaking or taking away things I depend on. Plan A would have had me staying using the Google services I've always used. The Evilness part is just a factor in why my plan B is finding replacements services other than Google, rather than paying Google for more stuff.
For example, though they are taking away my free Gsuite, which I relied on for email for my personal domains, and I would rather pay for some other company's email service rather than pay Google for their business service, I intend to keep using Gmail as the front end if possible, because it serves me well.
Similarly, I think Disney is Evil, but I still subscribe to Disney+, because they haven't screwed me over enough to force me off. Yet.
As my son put it "it's Evil, but it's reasonably priced Evil."
There are only few orgs I will flatly refuse to engage with period, and several, even huge mega-corps, that have been non-Evil enough to keep my business even if there are some cheaper alternatives.