Of all the people in this thread swearing they don't use Google, I wonder how many are writing their comments using Chrome (or Chromium, or Edge, or Brave, or Opera, or any other browser that uses the guts of the Chromium project)
But I am aware that I’m not typical.
Apple gets billions from Google, funding quite a bit of their R&D.
Most of the open source software you use including the Linux kernel has a bunch of contributors from Google.
Going one step further, Google has a large hand in open standards for everything, from wifi to programming languages.
I'm not saying you should avoid these, it's just interesting that you can take so many non-typical steps to avoid google and still mandatorily have them involved in all of your technology.
In short, taking some of these steps is reasonable for a person, and some... are not. Painting it as some kind of moral hypocrisy isn't helpful.
However, we should also remember that Mozilla's main funder is... Google/Alphabet, via a royalty deal for having Google be the default search engine. See, e.g., here:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-go...
And while the royalties arrangement is not that old, Google was a main funder before that happened as well. FYI.
But I also still use Android, the Google Play Store, YouTube (via NewPipe), Google Messages, Google Maps, and Google Keep because I haven't found great alternatives. It's surprisingly hard to completely get rid of Google.