don't call me a nobody how dare ye

It's paywalled so I can't vouch for its quality again but I think I vaguely remember what article that was.

I don't know what to think of Google now. I wish it wasn't the way it was, but they have also built such a large tower of Babel if you include all secondary services that I cannot imagine my life unchanged without it. Hell, I'm writing this from a campsite that I found and got to through Maps, most of my screentime is given to YouTube, everything I have ever emailed that's still relevant to me is in Gmail. I did do a Google Takeout the other day and it was well over 50GB.

Now I was hoping for some serious web3 alternatives but we're not there and won't be for a while it seems. It's easy to yell TINA! and call it a day, but it feels to me like social media collapsing in on itself the past year is an omen for bigger tech collapsing in on itself and while the former are bad, but things most people can do without I don't want to know how ugly it'll get if Google musks themselves. Not saying it's a reason to stick to the current path, but I would like for there to be better alternatives sooner rather than later.