I mean you can escape it by just not using google's shit.

I know it's not an option for everyone, but you can use email that's not gmail, and online office suites and file sharing that's not google docs and drive.

(I went with mxroute for email, and a nextcloud with embedded only office for the docs/drive replacement.)

Holy fuck.

This is bad. I have so much shit on GDrive. A lot of personal data. No no no no no.

I did escape it. I moved my email to Proton, my search to Kagi, and never looked back. I will never touch a Google product or service again.

Does that mean that users' gmail data is now accessible by hacking the ai? In the same way other LLMs were exploited to reveal training data?

Yes I can. Deleted my last Google account yesterday. Got what I needed, and honestly once I liberated a couple phone numbers (too damn memorable to ever just give up), there wasn’t much left.

Been slowly migrating for awhile piece by piece, the timing just happened to work out well for the last piece, and the metaphoric peering in cabinets to make sure nothing got overlooked in the process.

I still have to deal with Win 11 for work, and having AI forced down my throat, but Google-free feels GOOD!

... however only paying Google Workspace customers will be able to access it for the time being.

So the way to escape it is to not pay Google. I'm not sure they thought through their business model yet.

I can just not use it and block it with adblock