That's why I stopped using Google years ago and even before that I had all my privacy settings set to maximum. Nowadays I don't even use the word Google to gnymore. Instead I say look up ,on the Internet
Sure the state has nothing to do with section 230 protection and corporate protection and copyright protection and thousands of rules that make it less cost effective to be a smaller company
Whatever you do donโt say Scroogle online or googoo will come after you with a vengeance. Scroogle used to be an excellent screw-googoo private search engine that mirrored the companyโs search results but hid addresses and shredded their cookies...but G sued and forced them out if business many moons ago.
I avoid Big Tech like the plague. I saw the writing on the wall when Alex Jones was unpersoned. Not that I'm a fan, but it's the principle of the thing. So for me it's Protonmail, DDG, Gab, BitChute and Minds and Rumble (Dan Bongino)