MakeUseOf: “I use Google for almost everything. Search, email, maps, videos, documents, even my calendar. The biggest advantage here is convenience. I don’t have to create dozens of accounts and manage them separately. But it also means I’m giving way too much data to a single company. That’s not exactly a smart thing to do if you care about privacy. I didn’t want to abandon Google entirely, so I did the next best thing. To start my 2026 strong, I went through every Google privacy settings, and took control of how my data was collected and used…” [or use just use DuckDuckGo]