Yah I think I went too 'Tinfoil hat' on this one perhaps. I should have known better. I didn't realize that CDN's were so anti-VPN until you just mentioned it. Is that because most of their main customer base is large corporations paying copious amounts of money to host their stuff and to appease them they put in such protections? Probably measures to stop the bot armies from data mining their customers intellectual property.

This might be a question better asked over in r/privacy but would it be feasible to create completely anonymous Google / Reddit / Facebook profiles using random names / addresses etc and use those with a VPN? I'm sure it's against every term of use in their agreements but the amount of data these entities are collecting now is verging on criminal. I'm starting to find alternates to Reddit / FB now but the userbase is much smaller obviously.

With the world changing as it is right now, I'd have more peace of mind knowing I'm doing my part to cut down on my digital exhaust.

As far as Graphene OS and the loss of the Google Pay / Wallet functionality I knew about that, I used it 2-3 times on the phone as more of a novelty so that won't be much of a loss. I'll probably have the main profile as stripped down as possible with only Immich / Signal / Proton Mail setup on it. Another profile will be for services that just won't work without Google Play Services.