7 simple things I always do on Android to protect my privacy [and reduce being monetized by Google et al.]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42786765

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".