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Paul Biggar made a great summary about how these "acquisitions" serve to get Israeli spies into American tech companies. Those spies then use their powers for Israel.
I'm convinced my old company was complicit in this to some degree. It was a start up with absolutely silly funding for a bunch of products (b2c and b2b) that were aimed to hoover up personal information under the guise of gaming.
For some reason we were told to start an office in Tel Aviv and to specifically hire devs from unit 8200.
As if Google isn't already crammed with Israeli spies. In fact, that's probably why an Israeli company just got a sweetheart buy out from Google! This is just a continuation of a pre-existing issue Google already had.
It also puts $4billion directly into the Israeli tax bank for some much needed genocide funding.
Google isn't "playing with fire". They're a major contributor to this genocidal bonfire.
Humanity is so screwed that I don't want to bring children to this world
Terminal birth rates across the world are the real gift that keeps giving
Also isn't that valuation way overblown so they can send billions in tax to Israel, behind the facade of a "deal".
Google's on: "Let's see how EVIL we can get"
I did not know they had a new slogan
I'm still using Gmail, mostly cause of how much of a hassle it is to change to a new email address. Shit like this is really making me find motivation to switch.
Proton makes it easy to switch by setting up email forwarding from your Gmail to protonmail
Doesn't that defeat the purpose of switching, if Google still get to harvest all your data?
Presumably you would switch or cancel accounts/subscriptions as the emails get forwarded.
This would be for a mop up of old subscriptions you forgot about.
It's to ease the transition
When you do eventually switch, I'd recommend getting your own domain and using an email address at that domain, so that your email address becomes independent of your email provider. It will make it easier to switch again in future should you need to, because you can keep the same email address and use it with a new provider.
Don't feel like you have to race. It took about a year to shift e-mail addresses last time I did it. Keep the old one as a harvesting point until you move over what you want. Then just leave the old one around to use up space on Google's servers if you really want to softly be a dick. (They eventually close them after some period of inactivity.)
Basic steps for a slightly more thorough method that also preserves old e-mail: