It must suck to never be able to watch a YouTube video and have to use Bing for every web search. I’m also guessing you don’t use any social media. Funny thing is they’ve already got all your information unless you live by only using cash, don’t go to a hospital and take yourself off the grid, but good luck in your quest to stay completely anonymous while still being deep into the tech world.
You don't understand what's going on, and that's exactly what Google is counting on. First, the myth "just give up, they have all your information." No, of course Google has been working on your dossier for a long time, but they need to keep feeding it, so if you don't use Google Maps, they don't know everywhere you drive, how long you stop, etc. If stop using Gmail, they don't have a copy of the contents of every email you are sending and receiving from now on. If you don't use Google Photos, they don't have every picture you and your family upload or are sent. If you don't use Google docs anymore, your future documents aren't available to them, etc., etc.
Myth #2, "Give up, because it's too hard to stop them from knowing everything about you." Wrong Grasshopper! Just by using tracker blockers when you browse the web, and now with Safari's greater new privacy features, you are going to stop Google from getting more info on you. You can easily watch Youtube without Google knowing who you are--ditto with social media. And Apple continues to be a great helper with all the enhancements they are building into Safari.
Dakota, get your helmet on and get back in the game. It's not too late. It's not about "living off the grid," but rather about stopping/slowing down the Borg that is Google and others, like Facebook, but especially Google who is trying to build a dossier on every person they can. Read your TOS with Google and you'll decide to fight, e.g., when you read that with every photo you upload to Google Photos "for free," you give them a worldwide, perpetual license to use that photo. When you read that they assign you a "universal identifier" to try and tie together everything they have on you across all their services and all their trackers, as Patton said, you'll know what to do.
). But your entire paragraph failed to address the topic of this forum--the myth about the lead that Google and Amazon supposedly have in smart speakers capabilities, not Siri in general. Coincidentally, there's a new article on Macrumors today making my point, i.e., it turns out that HomePod already can do everything that the vast majority of people use their smart speakers for.
