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”.
Can you do ad and tracking blocking using their VPN thing? And can you turn off the VPN part leaving just the blocking going?
yes and yes. you don’t the VPN app to use their DNS servers.