First indirect contact with Gael ages ago, through Mandrake Linux, when Microsoft Windows was still relevant. Currently Ubuntu 18.04 Linux user. Created my domain to own my email address around 2004. Tested exalead ages ago but didn’t resist switching back to Google Search. Switched to Fastmail (instead of gmail) for email hosting around 2014. Using DAVX5 (a.k.a. DAVDROID) to synch Calendar and Contacts with Fastmail. Mostly using DuckDuckGo for search. I have recently deleted my Google account from my smartphone a couple of times but the paid Countour Lines plugin in OSMAND seems to require the Google account…
Strong interest in degoogling (framasoft, eff, prismBreak), and some skepticism. Very aware of the need for trust in a cloud provider, both in the intent of the provider (Google baaad) and the capacity to execute (Fastmail and Google gooood).