Degoogling the MegaGoogled

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As I sit here listening to dudes yelling on another World of Warcraft Hardcore Moments upload, I’m just hours past further degoogling my life a little bit more. And, for all intents and purposes, it was a massive pain in the nards. Ridding yourself of Google is a lot more complicated than just not paying for Youtube and using some other e-mail service, and I’m starting to think that this is by design.

One of the biggest things I wanted, and needed to do, was stop paying for “Google One,” which affords you more Drive space. The problem with drive space, is, that, for whatever reason, when you reclaim space, this is not reflected immediately. Hours and hours after having deleted everything from my Google Drive, it is only now reflecting the massive storage difference.

On a PC the difference would have been immediate.

And, maybe this is on-purpose? Say, if you’re on the verge of canceling your subscription, and they want to trick you into not doing that. I don’t know. I do know, it’s pretty heinous that if, for whatever reason, your drive is over the line of space that you’re allowed, they basically completely disable your Gmail account. This is what’s meant to stop people from not paying Google.

I mean it’s not like it’s enough that Google’s been shoehorning more and more AI into everything, but they’re just a terrible company all-around, regardless. I mean, forcing people to watch ads or not use Youtube? Jesus.

The only thing I’m left with now is the Authenticator. And, believe you me, I have no idea how to separate myself from this. I have so many authentication keys connected to things on just Google’s Authenticator, that simply not using it would be extremely disruptive to my ability to log into things. Which … is also probably part of the design. Unless … there is a way to switch to something else, and keep all those keys?

Let me know.