Isn’t it worse? Now two search engines know what you are searching for

Droid-ify is the best way to use f-droid imo

Been using dnsforge.de as DNS, works well. I also have Mull/Ublock Origin and use ad-free apps like Spotube, LibreTube, InnerTune, and AntennaPod.

Mull uses this by default

I assume this is how 99% of big tech corps are run