I don't know if it's going to get to the point where it hurts their business (I'm just one person), but I'm to the point that targeted advertising is a really good way to make me not want to buy a product.
I too switched away after being a lifetime Google Advocate: Android, Chromebook, GCP, Linux + Chrome and many, many of their products. Honestly, I don't care about privacy that much I'm just sick and tired of how good Google became at distracting me! Never mind the ads and how I had to use incognito search for anything because if I searched something (e.g. buying a monitor) google keeps suggesting similar stuff to get my attention or suggesting articles on the homepage of Chrome (mostly android).
What was once a simple beautiful tool to find answers, fast. became part of every aspect of my life, trying to get more and more of my attention/time.
Time is gold. Google lost respect for my time and I lost respect for Google.
Fastmail is a leading contender, but thanks for posting Migadu. It does sound interesting.
They offer a lot for a low price, but I wonder how?
I’m intrigued!
They don't respond to queries or requests. I presume that's how. To avoid repeating my comments too many times, let me suggest looking at my other comments on this post.
Yeah but you still click the link to go to those sites in the search result, right?