These people literally got off their chairs during their college graduation from a prestigious university to protest the shit Google is doing!

Each person who did that made a bigger impact, and probably a bigger sacrifice, than a person who degoogled. That was my point.

Ultimately we need people to degoogle, but until way more people pay attention to why they should, it will remain a niche thing.

No huge consequences, you’re right. Probably annoyed the CEO. But 200 people degoogling? Even people running metrics every day at Google wouldn’t notice. It would be great if everyone degoogled, but until that trend starts getting much more traction than it has now it will have no measurable impact, and making more people think about how Google is evil is the only way to increase that traction.

Even if they didn’t, this was inestimably more impactful than a couple hundred people degoogling.