Why do you need to stop using something you like? Certainly use Firefox instead of Chrome so you can keep using an adblocker, and lie about not using any Google stuff on HN so you aren't burned at the stake. But there's no bonus points in real life for making yours more difficult.
Personally, I became slightly uncomfortable with having 100% of my online identity and data under one account with one company that can use my data however it wants, and offers little or no customer support (because I'm not really the customer). Like I said, I'm still using Gmail and Voice. Also Drive, Contacts, Calendar, Maps, an Android phone... but just listing it all makes me a little squeamish again.
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Why do you need to stop using something you like? Certainly use Firefox instead of Chrome so you can keep using an adblocker, and lie about not using any Google stuff on HN so you aren't burned at the stake. But there's no bonus points in real life for making yours more difficult.
Personally, I became slightly uncomfortable with having 100% of my online identity and data under one account with one company that can use my data however it wants, and offers little or no customer support (because I'm not really the customer). Like I said, I'm still using Gmail and Voice. Also Drive, Contacts, Calendar, Maps, an Android phone... but just listing it all makes me a little squeamish again.