There are those who consider google to be the devil.
I tend to lean towards their way of thinking, but it's a large sprawling business (like microsoft and Amazon and governments) that can barely knows what any one branch/arm/hand is doing at any given time, let alone all of them, so I'm a bit more forgiving and say they've spread themselves a bit too thin to be all things to all people as they hope. Therefore, I've decided to limit my exposure:
Browse with Brave, DuckDuckGo as my search engine, none of Google's apps on my devices...It's actually cut down on the spam/phishing/general internet noise/junk in my life as it pertains to using computers/web. I'm certain Merlin/scripts have played a not insignificant part in that as well - they've definitely made me reconsider my usage of online services and how exposed I am to them, personally.
But maybe I'm deluding myself <shrug>