I loved that I could go to a store, buy an official bigger Samsung battery for this phone.

If someone is fixated on using chrome, so far there is still a workaround:

https://www.neowin.net/guides/you-can-still-enable-ublock-origin-in-chrome-here-is-how/

Other than that, just switch to Firefox.

It is still being used. Check out Cellar Darling - vocalist plays hurdy gurdy.

Can confirm - I really enjoyed that movie.

During Covid, I did some digital cleaning. It took me around a month (from couple of minutes, up to few hours each day) to clean up my gmail inbox. I had a gmail label where I placed all the emails received from any site where I created an account. I went one by one to each of them and either changed the login (to a non gmail address), or deleted an account (if I wasn’t using it anymore).

Now I use another email provider, and i pay for it. I use gmail for situations/accounts where i suspect that my email address could be spammed. Right now, my whole google space usage is around 50 mb. I stopped using google drive, I don’t use google search, I still use YouTube and pay to have no ads - because I just like YouTube.

It’s possible to disconnect oneself from Google services as much as one wants. Still, I continue to use an android phone (I like iOS, but it’s still too limited in comparison to Android).