I keep a fairly close eye on my DNS traffic; it still does crash reporting through Crashlytics (which I just block), but that’s about it.

I just paid the whole 4$ for the pro version and to support an otherwise free app I’ve quite enjoyed.

No ads/tracking anymore.

Devs gotta eat.

For more manual stuff; Ssh and X-Plore File Explorer.

Internal, sd card, ssh, ftp(s), google drive, dropbox, and a bunch of other cloud providers; treats it all like one big file system that I can casually copy/move files between.

For just syncing files between folders: FolderSync. The ‘downloads’ folder on my phone is setup as a 2-way sync with a folder on my server. Drop a file in either side, click sync, file is in both places. I use this to keep most of the files on my phone backed up, not just syncing the download folder.

Gemini ‘messaged’ me in google messages introducing itself a couple months ago. Just appeared like a normal text conversation with any other contact, but as soon as you click on it you’re presented with a wall of T&Cs.

Deleted the ‘conversation’ and it’s stayed gone; though there’s an option for it in settings.

The only other place I’ve see it is an on-screen reminder every time I use Google Assistant. (usually just triggering home automatons)