I woke up and found that my blocked stats went from 5% to 20%. Most of these happened when I was sleeping.
80% of these blocks were while I was asleep. And every time I open an app, there are a few more queries being sent to tracking and stats.
Not labeling this as an "evil Chinese company" problem, since all brand phones do this kind of crap. Like I said earlier, quantitative data like this really puts everything into perspective.
Maybe smartphones have evolved since the Ubuntu phone attempted to break into the market. Time to look into that.