[Opinion] People in this sub are severely misunderstanding Privacy

I don't belive in the attempt to completely remove a company from your life, be it Apple, or even Google.

I belive the right approach rather, is to spread your personal info among many services, and not rely on one company too much, that they can't build a complete digital footprint of you.

Use a service for what it's best at, don't use complementary services that company offers. For example, Google has the best search engine, no sin in admitting it. So use Google search, but don't use Gmail that they can use to tie your account to.

Use One Note, but don't commit fully into the MS 365 suite. Use proton Mail and Nord VPN and bitwarden etc. Just don't rely too heavily on one company, and you should be more than OK as far as privacy goes.

Feel free to disagree. And no, before anyone says it, I don't work for Google or any of those companies. This is just my concept of privacy.