What hasn’t gotten worse with Google? I have been slowly leaving Google and now it’s just YouTube and Google maps. Youtube I am not overly worried about as I can still block all the commercials.
When enders game came out there was a big issue about the author of the books bring very homophobic because of his religion. I made a donation for the same price as the tickets to a pro LGBTQ+ org and still went. If your MIL gets snarky just put the donation under her name and put her email in. I would do that the next day so there is no fight and it messes up the kids time.