Originally it was because suggested results were a waste of time and I had used linux in grad school. I liked being able to use my computer how I wanted. As I learned more and more the ethics became a strong enough motivator I got rid of gmail and stopped using google maps. I'm 100% degoogled now, and I never looked back. Sometimes I have friends or people at work who want to collaborate using google products. I tell them I take an ethical stance against it. I will never go back.
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For me it always felt a bit weird to give google all this data about me, but it was so convenient and their services often are very good and definitely user friendly. So I always told myself, what's the worst they can do? They are a corporation and they would only hurt themselves if they used their data against their users. And anyway they are US based. The USA are the biggest and oldest democracy which wouldn't allow evil forces to gain power.
Yeah, that was that.
I am de-googled for quite a while. Coming across goggle polluted pages and services really makes me feel bad now, like somebody standing behind me and watching
Google collects a lot of personal data and I don't like it. I disabled every Google app and service that was possible without changing OS or rooting the phone. Then I realized that few apps, that are important to me, did not work correctly without Google Services. So unfortunately I had to re-enable it. I'm using VPN though. Hopefully that messes at least a little bit Google's data collecting.
On PC Linux is nowadays my main OS but I have Windows 11 installed too (dual boot). There's still quite many compatibility problems with Linux.