Agree with this point of yours whole heartedly. But I just can't wrap my head around Google tracking every single thing I do on my phone, even the things I don

Agree with this point of yours whole heartedly. But I just can't wrap my head around Google tracking every single thing I do on my phone, even the things I don't do explicitly and there is no fathomable way to stop that unless I start everything from scratch. From the bricks, to sand, to water, and cement to setup a phone using some ROM that might or might not support the Android phone model I bought and if it did then even a patch might upend everything I had setup (including but not limited to bricking my phone for good) and then do that all over again. Not to mention that if I used that ROM a lot of essential apps might just don't even work to begin with or I might not even be able to install them, forget working. A browser is important but a kinda small, part of overall phone usage. At least for me.