I agree but at least the PoS cryptocurrencies seem to have solved the energy use problem.

By this argument any website is wasteful. There’s always a “better thing”.

Google is a tech company.

It’s always only going to be useful for things like buying drugs, cases where you want to skirt regulation or you really want privacy. Which is fine. It can have it’s niche. Pretending it was ever going to be more than that was a mistake.

They have rescinded this policy according to the article.

They can. It’s in the TOS when you make your account. They own everything you post to the site.