I just watched a video on how to get a google free phone. It was interesting indeed! I might be looking into that for my next phone. There's a whole other side of this stuff that I had no idea of. The guy was Rob Broxman or something, caught him on James Corbett show. Was an awesome one to watch and I'm glad that you're unplugged for good! They are laying the ground work for a lot of stuff for sure.
I'm going to start to remove the google apps from my phone now that I've learned more about how they connect it all together. Hopefully with brave I'm a little removed from the tracking stuff they employ but I'm not sure that level yet.