Yesterday I powered up the phone and spent a solid hour just disabling, de-installing goog apps and 'features.' First to kill was the Chrome browser, all the gaming things (no interest) and some junk from the manufacturer (Motorola).
Then upgraded from Android 13 to 14. Yay - I've jumped ahead from Android9 - and am back in to current features and security.
Started reading to find new versions of old apps that have become ad-laden or orphaned.
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