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Does turning off wifi, force stopping apps, clearing cache, and using a privacy friendly browser work? I been doing that for years and I don't see any intrusive/malicious/super specific targeted ads, heck, ads had been minimal and only appear while I use apps.
Google play services betrays you.
Use https://grapheneos.org/ and it sandboxes Google play for you, but ironically requires a Google Pixel phone.
@ParetoOptimalDev @asunaspersonalasst That's the thing that put me off. I brain couldn't reconcile the idea of de-Googling by buying something from Google.
Took delivery of a Pixel 9 last Thursday after 16 years of iPhones. Within an hour of delivery I had it on Graphene and after a few days of VEEEEERY steep learning curve I'm really enjoying using it.
I have absolutely no idea how any of the sandboxing stuff works, and could stand to have fewer notifications warning me what the system is doing, but overall it's pretty straightforward.