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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".

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[โ€“] blackbeards_bounty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Adguard for android (paid). It runs as a local VPN and cleans up everything, including most ads in apps.

You can find cheap lifetime licenses for sale. I've been using it for many, many years.

[โ€“] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Alternative is TrackerControl - again a local VPN, but aimed at blocking trackers (which could then include ads)

Find it on FDroid: https://trackercontrol.org/

[โ€“] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago

Yes, that's a great FOSS alternative.

The only reason why I don't use trackercontrol is that I can't use it at the same time as an actual VPN. And since I already paid for AdGuard, it's on all my devices. ๐Ÿคญ