The thing that made me not trust Google with anything I would miss if it was gone tomorrow is a very simple and probably biased one.<p>Whenever a Youtube video is removed or made private, it is also plucked from my playlists and my Liked Videos. They recently started hiding the broken videos in lists altogether, but it really doesn't make a difference anymore.<p>So whenever a video disappears, not only can I not watch it anymore, which is reasonable, but I can't even know what it was that I enjoyed watching without using third party tools. Information just gets plucked from the lists I curated for more than a decade, to the point that a third of the videos is just gone and I have no way of knowing what it is that was taken away, or even that it was taken away at all with the recent change.<p>I find that to be rather invasive, because I specifically created those lists so I don't have to remember. If I can't trust Google to help me remember cat videos and fail compilations, what <i>can</i> I trust it with?<p>It seems like such a trivial thing, mundane even, but it highlights to me everything I need to know that the only one who benefits from giving my data to Google, is Google.