I lived in china and put effort into de-googling my phone. Now I’m back in the open world and seems need do all over again.

Must be a biz opp to run a proxy that strips everything google from pages and web communications. I would pay a few $/month to not be farmed without consent.

No need to proxy, you can just use https://brave.com/. Add a pihole to strip it from other devices and non-browser web traffic.

Using a browser powered by Google’s technology stack is hardly deGoogling.

You can view the brave browser repository yourself and see how they strip out a bunch of google crap: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

If you don't trust them, you can compile it on your own.