The AI is confidently wrong, that's the whole problem. If there was an easy way to know if it could be wrong we wouldn't have this discussion
onion
Graphene allows more profiles but it should work on stock android
Mao?
I've been getting around quite well on OrganicMaps, but it does lack live traffic information
Check out https://www.privacyguides.org, they have a bunch of useful info and recommendations.
Remember, it's not an all-or-nothing situation, every step you take away from google helps. And you can always reevaluate later, and take time to figure out what works best for you.
You can run multiple user profiles on one phone to isolate apps like Google Maps.
Tutorial/explaination:
They are usually losing money
https://www.statista.com/chart/26773/profitability-development-of-spotify/
People keep years worth of browser history, until finding something in there becomes harder than searching the web. I see no use for that either, but everyone I've asked insisted they need it. They couldn't really spell out why either
*in the USA. This doesn't apply to EU and UK as per the article
Harddrives start at 16€/TB, so 500MB would be 0.008€. SSDs start at 50€/TB, so it would be 0.025€ or two-and-a-half cents