The way I deal with it is not to put all my eggs in one basket. For instance, don't link your online accounts to one email, have one separate email address just

The way I deal with it is not to put all my eggs in one basket. For instance, don't link your online accounts to one email, have one separate email address just for those. And try to use a different email provider to the company who makes your mobile OS. And just don't use proprietary OSs where possible, go with Linux or BSD. In fact these days I'd recommend BSD if you really want to avoid too much bad data-gathering practice (even though I still use Linux myself out of habit), just because BSD still has a relatively unsullied rep.