Agree.
I've personally recently begun a journey of finding out what it takes to use my phone in a private and secure manner.
It's quite an interesting project, that I can recommend to anyone eager to learn about the digital footprint.
Buy a google pixel, install grapheneOS on it, and from there, start the project of how you migrate your usual phone usage without attaching your identity.
For me, so far, that has taken me through so many cool services like:
- silent.link (paid with lightning)
- mullvad VPN (paid with lightning)
- namecheap domain (paid on chain)
- proton unlimited (paid on chain)
- proton includes simplelogin which is now completely invaluable to me
- jmp.chat for voip phone service (paid on chain)
- android profiles for phone use case silo-ing
Just generally taking things step by step migrating a phone usecase at a time, taking into consideration what would be necessary to keep private and secure in order to use a specific app or service.