No worries, I am not reading it as preaching.

Basically what I try to do is minimizing the interaction with Google and have some sort of redundancy.

So on my phone I connect to a VPN server and use NewPipe for music. I’m fine with that considering that it is just music and lots of people could have similar activity.

On desktop I connect to another VPN server and use Piped (or Invidious) because the content I watch is mainly from my country (different than the server location although I’d still avoid it no matter the location) and I feel like I could easily be the only one doing it, so even if it is a VPN IP I prefer to not associate it at all with my activity.

Also the server I usually use is blocked by Google anyway, same goes for other that I frequently use on desktop.

In the case I REALLY need to open a YouTube video I do it only on desktop through Mullvad Browser from yet another server that isn’t blocked by Google

On top of that I don’t have a google account and I don’t use other Google services, not even Play Services on my phone.

Disclaimer: I’m not an expert of anything involved here, I just follow my instinct 🤣 so if something I do seems uselessly complicated, it probably is.