My divorce from Google - One year later

Don't really see many items in the "Observations and Lessons Learned" categories, as he titles them, it seems mostly focused on how quitting Google makes him feel..

And just in that webpage Ghostery blocked 16 scripts...

Thinking about how reliant I am on Google's services and how difficult it would be to find comparable alternatives makes me very nervous. Gmail, maps, drive, translate, search, youtube are all daily activities for me.

Sure I could replace drive with Dropbox but it is twice as expensive. I could replace GMail with Outlook or Yahoo but so many of my colleagues, contacts and friends get in touch with me through google talk. Plus none really compare to GMail in terms of ease of use (although I've really started to dislike the new compose feature).

The point is the individual pieces are probably replaceable, but no one even comes close to having such a cohesive, integrated set of products. At this point the best I can do is make sure I have an offline copy of as much as possible and hope for the best.

Honestly, if they are going to get your information, who cares. Out of millions and billions of the information they get, why would they be interested about specifically yours. That's a big problem I have when people bring up privacy issues. There are certain lines, but Google's not crossing them. Sifting through your email to give you relevant advertising is harmless - in fact, some of it is how they get information for a very powerful Google Now.

So the other services handle your data better ? Or is the just your resolution?