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”.
It seems a bit like a fool’s errand to buy a phone running an advertiser’s OS and then try to stop it from tracking you.
Fair point, but IMO it’s more than just the technical act of blocking, it’s highlighting to everyone that this is going on…
Some are happy to be tracked, cool, but, I’m fairly confident that millions of people aren’t even aware of it.
These articles barely scratch the surface of what can be done - for example, I presume you’re referring to loading a different OS, which would blow the minds of many users out there