7 simple things I always do on Android to protect my privacy - and why you should too
www.zdnet.com
Your personal information is highly valuable to many threat actors. Here's how to keep it safe.

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”.

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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      2 days 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. 🤭