The way to ensure that future isn't where we're going is to buy a phone from someone else. Sure, you can disable some of Google's tracking features, but they pretty much cripple your device if you do. (For instance, if you don't let them track you in the cloud, they won't even locally save your previously searched locations on the device, which is a pain.)

I tried to get along with a privacy-set Android for a while, but the reality is that Android is designed for one thing and one thing only: Data collection.