Fair enough, but your comment seems to miss the point.
Can you say with certainty that all of the services you DO use on the internet are not feeding data to Google? Discovering that Google was involved in Fox News comments was a surprise to me. Seeing the kind of processing they are doing on the comments is troubling given their bias. At the end of the day, it underscores the recent alarm over big tech bias.
I don’t use Google any more either - I use duckduckgo.com. I was not aware that Google could be potentially impacting Fox News comments. Where else are they exerting influence? When they exert that influence, is there a bias?
Finally - and most importantly - this is about the future. Right now they are building a system with data we are unwittingly providing to later (potentially) use against us. As a technologist, I see a significant threat on the horizon. It’s Big Brother territory.
Pretty much every website uses some kind of google services. They’ve spent well over a decade developing analytic tools for the web and they have the market pretty well cornered. There is no equivalent.
If you want to know who’s visiting your site, where they’re from geographically, what website they were previously on, which pages they visit on your site, how long they stay, what keywords they searched for when/if they used search results to end up on your site etc etc etc. It’s google and only google.
google analytics
google webmaster tools
google maps - is used in conjunction with the above for geographic data(and people think they’re just being nice with their Get Directions service)
google ads (the biggest online ads service)
youtube is google
gmail
google drive
Android operating system
Alexa
Enormous conglomerate to the web. With all the above services, apps, Android OS, they collect as much data as they can and put it all together.
Other internet services, like commenting systems for instance, also utilize google services. Their tentacles are everywhere.
I use duckduckgo as well.
I did see that Malwarebytes Premium reports a lot of bots and things embedded in websites like Comcast report stuff to google. And Microsoft.
Bass turds.