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Google Pixel with GrapheneOS.
If you are actually, really, honestly low on money, you may get something with DivestOS or LineageOS.
GrapheneOS is the gold standard, every Google certified Android is full of tracking and will show ads in places
Is this a US thing? I've never seen any ads within Android itself, or any Google app.
No me neither. But if you use ISP DNS, Google Chrome, Youtube, Google blablabla you might see ads.
This is not the biggest problem though, as all apps will gather data in you to improve those ads, no matter if you block them or not.
This. The only google service which doesn't work is google pay, and you can literally just put an NFC card in your phone case if it's that important to you
Even android auto is supported.
I have already said that I don’t want to deal with custom bootloaders/systems. I know that stock phone systems are full of tracking, but I just want to know which ones have the least tracking that are not from Google.
Get an iPhone or a dumb phone.
Androids purpose is to generate ad revenue for Google. Everything else is there to server that goal. To get away from that you have to degoogle the phone. Phones using android without Google services are likely even worse for ads like fire os.
GrapheneOS really isnt comparable to LineageOS. The install literally is
Have a look at Veronica Explains' video, i recommend to use F-Droid Basic though. Thats it, it just works.
And you can revert back to stock Android without a problem too, why not give it a try? This "I am looking for stock android without ads" is pretty half baked, stock android is a tracking platform, everywhere. No fairphone (or Murena with their insecure "private" OS) or ANY other brand will give you a reasonably private phone, all are basically a tracking instrument.
We really need a googerteller Android App. Stock Android sends everything to Google