>>I don't feel like wasting money on the google, really. They already have enough. And maintaining one separate phone just to please them is not the trouble I'm willing to go through. If they're willing to spy on everyone, that's their choice, I'm not helping them.
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>Isn't a lot of life about jumping through hoops to get what you want. facebook are always offering to improve my security if I give them my mobile number but I don't and if they made it hard to use without the number I'd give them a junk one. meantime i can use it to stay in touch with family and friends at no cost to me..

Went through the same scenario with the facebook couple of years ago. I actually posted only three sentences there, when our first grandchild was born and the happy parents posted pictures within the hour. Few months later, it tells me my account was hacked (and daughter checked, someone was spamming others using my account). So I left it like that - I wouldn't touch it with a shitty pole after being dirtied with spam. So it was g'bye facebook, we didn't really love each other at all. Now it's g'bye google, you are just a good search engine, I liked you first four years or so.