> But my usage is so low that the current price feels horrendous per hour.
I don’t know how you can decry video streaming and advertising as destroying the planet and thus hating one of the companies that provide these services YET you use it.
Google is not even close to that kind of monopoly. Every one of their products has viable alternative, and plenty of anti-Google people get by without using them.
I use well below 1 hour of YouTube per month, many months zero. And I never click any ads (nor are the products they advertise relevant for me, they cannot track me and I am far from the average consumer) So if it were only users like me Google would have been long out of business. Obviously I have an ecological footprint, I try to keep it small, but without being a collector and hunter living in a cave.
