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I still worry that google is going to declare ad blockers against their TOS and shut down my gdrive and 20 year old gmail. I'm trying to move away from alphabet shit but it's not so easy with such a long history. To that end I haven't even once used yt except not logged in on a FF private window with ublock since they started pulling this shit.
I recently created another google account for youtube just in case. Was a huge pain to transfer over all my subscriptions but worth it for not having to worry.
Changing mail providers isn't easy when you use their domain endings as you'll probably have to update a bunch of accounts to use a new mail address. For the future, use email providers that allow to use your own domain(s), switching providers is a lot easier then. You can export mails from Gmail with ease though, as long as they provide IMAP you can simply sync your complete mailbox and you could even upload all of it to your new email provider.
And Google Drive...simply transfer all your files to somewhere else and done.