Until you get a chance to leave behind Google’s Android operating system completely, here’s an article I saw with a few fairly simple things you can do that will reduce (although not eliminate) the ability of Google and others to scrape your data and monetize you.

I already do step 1 (Firefox etc). But looking at step 5, for example, my phone had all those ad options set to “on”.

  • passenger@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    Yes. I got a spotless used pixel. But it is a huge paradox to have to get a Google phone.