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I think I can live without playstore completely but I might need K-9 with Google emails for some stuff on my device, so I guess I'm not escaping Google spying on my IP address anytime soon. Other than that, I don't use Google or apps from the playstore at all
Use a VPN. No reason not to if you're concerned about privacy—otherwise you have no privacy as your ISP can monitor you. If cost is an issue, ProtonVPN has a free tier, otherwise I recommend Mullvad as an affordable and really reliable and decent option imo. I found ProtonVPN's connection to be kind of volatile when I used it (I paid for it too, on the highest tier). Mullvad has always been super reliable though. Whenever I've had connectivity issues it's always been because of whatever network I'm connected to, not because of Mullvad.
Yeah I probably should but the WiFi at work doesn't let wireguard through (I have a wireguard server running on a VPS)