Yandex services are pretty nice (they have an equivalent to most Google things), but even more important for me is that - even on the lowest plan - you can talk to a real human in support within minutes, 24/7.
No, thanks. Google may be evil but moving my data from Google to the Russian government spooks is really not a solution.
But, although China could monitor me, why would they care about some random guy out of 300 million Americans? And even if they cared, what could they do that might actually affect my life?
In contrast, we know that many US companies have an open wire to American law enforcement and surveillance agencies. And these people do have an interest in monitoring me (even if I'm not doing anything wrong), and they do have the power to harm me.
China might be eviller in many respects, but the products of a Chinese company are harmless to me, especially in comparison to domestic ones.
(And I also use Kaspersky for security on my home computers.)
In some ways it's worse because Australia is five-eyes, so they can do a, I'll spy on your citizens you spy on mine kind of thing (which we know from Snowden was exactly what they were doing)[1][2].
[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/us-uk-secret-d... [2]: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/jun/10/nsa-offers-...
Search is for sure hit or miss, but I pay for it and feel... a bit better.
For my "professional" email I use Amazon Workmail with a custom domain.
Of course there may be other reasons why you want professional email separate, such as not having it at risk should Apple decide you've broken their T&Cs because poor AI/ML says so, and they close your account.
It isn't really anything sensitive, really more just when I am interviewing and related activities.
But I also want it to be a separate email instead of just an alias which I assume iClouds is. Could be wrong though.
Amazon's is just $5 a month so not really a huge drive to change it.
Why does that matter? Doesn't anything after the domain stay between your browser and the server you're communicating with, assuming https?
I encourage everyone to make the leap to DDG or some other search engine that doesn't just treat you as a data cow to be milked for your precious, precious "insights."
Even GMail is no longer an attractive proposition - the risk of being locked out (perhaps, even automatically!) of an account that serves as your primary mode of recovery / identification to other websites, with little to no chance of getting an actual human on the line to address your issue, is too great. I would rather not have my finances and other important accounts be subject to the whims of the big algorithm in the clouds.