For me it was less about leaving the tech giant, but moreso diversifying away from them.
I used to be a Google Guy. Android Phone, everything in my Google Account, Gmail and would use a Google service over anything else. Then I started to hear about Google randomly banning accounts and realized that having this one god Google account that basically ran my life is a major vulnerability.
So I started to diversify, not just to other services, but at Google as well. First I moved my mail, calendar, tasks to Fastmail, ditched my Android and got an iPhone, moved from Google Photos to iCloud. Next were the services I still needed from Google: Youtube, Google Play Console, Analytics, Search Console and a few others.
For those I created seperate Google accounts to manage every individual service. One for GP, One for GA and Google Search Console and one for Youtube. This way if Google bans my Youtube account, the damage is only contained to that one account and that one service.
FWIW I've definitely heard of Google banning multiple accounts belonging to the same person in those random ban stories. I guess it makes sense that that could happen because their advertising/data algorithms are obviously going to correlate accounts, and presumably you'd have to work pretty hard to stop them being able to do so.
> For those I created seperate Google accounts to manage every individual service. One for GP, One for GA and Google Search Console and one for Youtube. This way if Google bans my Youtube account, the damage is only contained to that one account and that one service.
I'm not sure how helpful that is given that Google is known to be able to correlate different accounts to the same person, it's happened before with Google Ads, for example.
I used to be a Google Guy. Android Phone, everything in my Google Account, Gmail and would use a Google service over anything else. Then I started to hear about Google randomly banning accounts and realized that having this one god Google account that basically ran my life is a major vulnerability.
So I started to diversify, not just to other services, but at Google as well. First I moved my mail, calendar, tasks to Fastmail, ditched my Android and got an iPhone, moved from Google Photos to iCloud. Next were the services I still needed from Google: Youtube, Google Play Console, Analytics, Search Console and a few others.
For those I created seperate Google accounts to manage every individual service. One for GP, One for GA and Google Search Console and one for Youtube. This way if Google bans my Youtube account, the damage is only contained to that one account and that one service.
That's how I did it.