You can toggle mic off through quick tiles to be sure it's off. Same as location, Bluetooth etc.
Tbh I don't believe at all that phones record you, they leak enough info in every other way that they don't need to spy on your conversions.
grapheneOS has a metric shittonne of features that allow much better seperation between apps, sandboxes all Google services so you can control it's permissions (or not use/install them) and much more
You can leak a lot less data with it, not using/installing google services, using PWA/webpage shortcuts instead of apps, focusing on using FOSS software over proprietary, etc
I don't recall w.cd having FL first week, but they did have semi regular weeks. Mebbe you filled it? I had a seedbox, when a FL period started I redid my entire library and permaseeded, shot through the ranks and was basically set for life.
bonus points for seeding duration irregardless of upload, can be traded for reducing download
freeleech torrents (only counts upload not download)
partial freeleech (25/50/75% download counted)
Timed freeleech (free first 24h)
Download % counted reduced based on seed size (seed >1tb and everything's freeleech)
Reduction of download % counted based on rank
Forum competitions for bonus points/freeleech tokens
Freeleech tokens giveouts
Hell, there's quite a few PT's that don't care about ratio and just have minimum seeding times on torrents.
Plenty of these trackers have been running 1-2 decades on 1 or more of these methods just fine.
Almost every site is laughably easy to keep ratio if you read the rules/FAQ, look at some what's to build points/ratio, read the forums, and don't go nuts In the first week while your establishing your account
Narrator: indeed, they did fuck it up