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You can just go into the uninstall screen to uninstall and then disable preinstalled applications. Disabling them causes Android to hibernate them, essentially - meaning they don't ever fire up on their own again, and since they're installed in the system partition, you don't necessarily lose any space by them being there, because you don't gain any space back by removing them.
There are multiple ad-blocker apps that use your phone...as a VPN loopback, which can then intercept and block ads for the whole device. I don't know of a particular one to suggest, as I run my own adblocked network from home and rely on a similar, but ultimately different method.
thank you, i'll look into it!