This all looks awesome (e.g. google assistant, google lens, google home, etc) but I would rather pay some $ for the service and have the guarantee that my data are my data ... than have it for free and have google mine my data to sell me ads or sell profiles to who knows who.
Maybe others are willing to trade the privacy creep for it being "free" but I'm not.
we block all meta and X properties from our home network, also ads
and it's self hosted on our own metal
it's a wonderful life