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I'm so scared of relying on one company for everything.

I personally run my own mail server and use Mail to move all messages to Google Inbox, so that I can use Google's excellent spam filter and email grouping while still keeping control over my email.

I use both Google Photos and iCloud Photos.

If I had to have Google proxy my website, I would at least give my visitors a CNAME instead of Google's URL, to avoid getting locked in into the technology.

I know a lot of people that would be totally screwed if Google closed their account for some reason: no more email, contacts, photos, etc. etc.



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