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Pretty sure that the latest version on FDroid is not yet full of ads and trackers for each app, so turning off auto updates should suffice.
If you honestly think that the F-Droid releases will ever contain ads and trackers, you have absolutely no clue what F-Droid is and how it works and you quickly need to educate yourself on the F-Droid website.
While I think it's more likely the apps will just never be updated on F-droid, ads and trackers are allowed on f-droid so that doesn't preclude them putting updated versions on F-droid.
F-Droid audits apps and usually removes ads and trackers unless they are required for the app to function. For example an app that records GPS tracks and uploads them, is GPS tracking the user. Technically F-Droid permits them if they are implemented solely via FOSS means, but I'm not aware of a single app on F-Droid that displays ad banners or so. There are these Facebook etc replacement apps that are specialized web browsers but ads on Facebook are not ads by the app.
Fdroid has a specific antifeature for ads. Is it possible to search the repo by antifeature to see what kinds of ad implementations have made it in?