Me too, and Firefox browser. Even still, with YouTube and Googlemaps, hard to get away from Google completely.

Aside from gmail I'm almost off Google. It's so hard to do because most other things don't have the same features because they don't have the money Google does.

Some of the features I just use signed out. I know I'm not an interesting enough person to track but it's eye opening how connected everything is.

I've heard good things about DDG and I know a lot of other people who use it. I'm currently using Brave. My only problem is what to do with all that free crypto. Will probably donate it.

I deleted my YouTube account last year and migrated off Gmail before that. I used to use Google Maps, but now use Waze. To replace YouTube I am using Dailymotion and Brighteon for the patriotic videos. To replace Gmail, I'm using Proton Mail. To replace Google Drive, I'm using MediaFire which I had an account for years before Google Drive was even a thing. I no longer use Facebook, Google (with the exception of Android, a necessary evil due to lack of viable alternatives), or Microsoft products. I deleted my Facebook account in 2017 or 2018 and no longer use Windows in favor of Linux. I do not use social media of any kind.

Freeing myself from (most) corporate tyranny and spying is great.

Google bought Waze over 5 years ago.

Which is why I say "most." We only have so many options.