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Yes, we should all flock to an operating system developed by an advertising company in an effort to escape advertisements.

I mean you 1000% shouldn't go to any store, buy an Android phone and just use it if you want to avoid Google. But Android in isolation is fine as long as you consider it a hobbyist smartphone platform.

If that operating system does a better job of escaping ads, why not?

Eh, I use Wipr. Exact same thing. PiHole if you want system-wide.

An ad blocker that intercepts all of your traffic is better for privacy than one that doesn’t?

If it's open source and people can check that it doesn't anything hidden, yes

Are you compiling it and putting it on your phone yourself or are you trusting that the same version that they posted on GitHub is the same version on Google Play.