I don't blame you, I go one step further, I use a rooted deGoogled phone with location defaulted to off and all apps with few exceptions such as browsers are specifically denied access to the internet. Even then I use multiple browsers for different jobs/sites with JavaScript defaulted to off. Oh, and I nearly forgot to mention the phone's VPN-type firewall.

When I go shopping I mostly use cash even for large purchases say up to $1k or so (I'll actively go to an auto teller and withdraw cash first rather than use my cards). I keep online purchases to an absolute minimum and when I do I make them with 'corporate' type cards.

I don't see this as paranoia, rather it's common sense. Anyone, who runs a logcat log-displaying program on a rooted smartphone without additional privacy protection steps being taken is astounded - in fact horrified - at the amount information that's being stolen from one. The log entries flash past in their thousands much faster than it's possible for anyone to ever read them.

I've little to hide and my lifestyle is really pretty boring and ordinary but I'm absolutely affronted how this situation developed without proper laws being in place or enacted (not long ago the privacy of telephone circuits was considered sacrosanct and laws rigorously protected us from being monitored).

In the grand scheme of things I recognize that my efforts are pretty futile but at least I gain some satisfaction in trying to combat the bastards.

I don't quite understand why the general attitude of the population to maintaining one's privacy has considerably lessened in recent decades, and similarly why existing privacy laws are not being upheld as they once were.