I’m using Firefox and DuckDuckGo and it’s okay. But, for example, I naively made gmail my work mail so I’ll be stuck with that for a while. But a few idealists on the Internet going through the effort of de-google-ing their lives doesn’t change their grip on society.

It’s rather obvious and there’s a lot of google employees on hacker news so I don’t really see the point of arguing further. You’re having a giant part of the defining tech of the 21st century controlled by one company. How’s that healthy?