With some technical know-how from another life, I’ve tried FOSS alternatives for some Google services. I decided that the tech support necessary to easily use and maintain the service was just enough outsidey wheelhouse at this time in my life to be worth it, and I’ll give Google a small amount of $ for the services I’ve integrated into my life.
That being said, I’ll gladly and instantly switch services if offered the same quality and ease of service for a similar price and the company actually demonstrates that I’m the customer and own my data instead of being a source of their dataset to sell off as they please.
With some technical know-how from another life, I’ve tried FOSS alternatives for some Google services. I decided that the tech support necessary to easily use and maintain the service was just enough outsidey wheelhouse at this time in my life to be worth it, and I’ll give Google a small amount of $ for the services I’ve integrated into my life.
That being said, I’ll gladly and instantly switch services if offered the same quality and ease of service for a similar price and the company actually demonstrates that I’m the customer and own my data instead of being a source of their dataset to sell off as they please.