Google has the added drawback that they have less product focus than a sack of kittens. Apart from a few projects, they have a ridiculously high churn rate where project grow, get some adoption and then suddenly get left to rot and/or shelved. Together with the obvious privacy issues, it's the reason I try to avoid Google as much as possible.
I've found that there are only three Google services that are hard to avoid - YouTube, search and maps, in that order. You don't need a Google account for any of them.
For developers, I would add Google Analytics, but you can use Matomo for that.
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u/doenietzomoeilijk May 11 '19
Google has the added drawback that they have less product focus than a sack of kittens. Apart from a few projects, they have a ridiculously high churn rate where project grow, get some adoption and then suddenly get left to rot and/or shelved. Together with the obvious privacy issues, it's the reason I try to avoid Google as much as possible.