I've started navigating away from Google products due to privacy issues. Too much display and selling of information. I've switched the search engines on my laptop and phone to duckduckgo, and I also use ProtonMail instead of gmail now. Youtube is the biggest problem as there's no real alternative. If Steemit included native video uploads it'd be great.

PS. if you need a throw away phone number for registering for services that require verification, but you don't want to give out your real phone number due to privacy or spam concerns Text Now offers a great free service for this.