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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    14 days ago

    I’ve had that happen with Credit Agricole’s app in the past. it would close immediately and load a website that suggested using Google’s Gboard or Microsoft’s Swiftkey :|