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> The only real solution is to fill your history and your Gmail purchases with fake emails and fake clicks and fake purchases.

The only real solution is to delete your Google account(s), avoid using Google services entirely, and firewall off any access from your machines to Google servers.

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You can't escape Google. I think there's been several articles talking about how deeply embedded they are.

You can. Its just that it requires more effort than most are willing to make

It depends on what you mean by "escape Google". You can certainly stop your machines from talking to Google servers, and you can certainly not use Google services. You can even use Android without Google hearing a peep from your device. That all takes work, though.

You can't do much about Google's real-world spying, though, such as their use of credit/debit card usage and so forth.

It's impossible to entirely avoid Google's infrastructure and tracking

But it's possible to avoid the vast majority of it.

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