It has taken me over 2 years to detach myself from google completely. I have been updating my email address and migrating my contacts on a regular basis. I was waiting until I could go a year with no real emails going to gmail before deleting. Yesterday was all it took. TODAY IS THE DAY. I AM FREE!
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I thought about doing the same, but instead of deleting after I migrated to ProtonMail, I left the account active for any risky/spammy account registrations. Google pays to process a few hundred spam emails a week, and the data is useless to them because it's not my actual email, and I use Brave/DDG