[epolanski]

GitHub isn't making me use Azure, Azure isn't making me use Office, Teams isn't making me use Bing.

See the point here? All of Google pieces are a giant machine to collude in the same direction: their ad engine.

[dekhn]

How does Google Cloud (I mean GCP, not Workspace) fit in to that idea?

It's not particularly bundled to the ad engine.

[ffgtedggf]

Bad counter example. Have you tried using Google ads or analytics without using BigQuery? What about server containers (not the type of containers in the docker sense you’re thinking of)? The data exfil costs for anything else tie you to gcp.