I’m using Firefox and DuckDuckGo and it’s okay. But, for example, I naively made gmail my work mail so I’ll be stuck with that for a while. But a few idealists on the Internet going through the effort of de-google-ing their lives doesn’t change their grip on society.

It’s rather obvious and there’s a lot of google employees on hacker news so I don’t really see the point of arguing further. You’re having a giant part of the defining tech of the 21st century controlled by one company. How’s that healthy?

Very few people seem to host their own email infrastructure, even when using their own domain, and I find myself unable to contact businesses and individuals because of gmail's rules that almost never let my messages through.

This isn't even touching on that Amp email garbage that they're pushing.