I don't know, the article says you can't get away from Google but it's pretty easy to reduce your exposure.
Use another email provider and another search engine and you have pretty much removed most of the sensitive data they have on you.
If you enjoy Youtube, just install F-droid and then Newpipe to get a completely ad free experience on your phone as well. And it's fast, has background playing with optional popup for video, higher resolution support etc. It's excellent.
Someone needs to decide, yes, or your kind of confrontational personality will cause everyone to be annoyed.
You literally ask questions without being open to seeing the other point of view here. I'm not going to use tech that makes it much harder for me to be productive just because it's free. It's similar to choose to live in a tent in the forest because you feel you don't want to take a loan and support the banks.
Just breathe a little bit and calm down. People here are very chill and you just come in here looking for a fight, judging by your responses.
We don't have to fight eachother online and people who disagree is sometimes a learning opportunity if you are open to it. They are not your enemy because they have different beliefs.
Ah yes, you got a point there.
I saw some checkbox for enabling NSFW content when signing up for Lemmy and in the profile. Maybe you have it enabled?
I think it's just frigging amazing to see this.
I just created an account on a new Lemmy instance to try out the experience, and I'm actually excited, watching all these people communicate across all the Lemmy instances. It's just like email, if email servers were self hosted by individuals.
I think it's good that it's disabled, since people downvote when they disagree, and it creates the same echo chamber as on reddit.
People need to be OK with others opinions and be able to read and move on without needing to punish the person for his opinion.