Money changes EVERYTHING!
That’s why I left Gmail years ago. Glad I did
Serious question, was it bad then and do you figure its worse now? Honestly, I assume google actually is evil at this point but I can’t be sure.
It requires some subjective nuance to it, but here’s my take.
For anyone who’s work represents their value, its only becoming increasingly important to distrust these companies.
They are out selling your work back to you, and others - at a massive loss that small/medium organisations can’t compete with.
Other than that the usual privacy concerns apply, would you want the entire US gov seeing anything you upload, are you concerned your ad profile will be used for political suppression, is the stock market a good tool to decide who should manage that power. The usual big tech evil stuff.
I don’t like email. It’s necessary to live and you just have to trust that the mail provider doesn’t read your letters. Which they do.
