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De-Google Your Life - Part 1 (piped.video)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The benefit is that I could block apps installed to one profile from using my data (i.e. wifi only), while allow apps on the other to use it. I could install something like NetGuard, but I also use a VPN, and it's one or the other with that IIRC (at least on my old phone, I can only use one VPN at a time).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ok that actually makes sense. I just realized that the fucking iPhone has this feature, but Android doesn't. GrapheneOS doesn't implement any custom features that aren't privacy/security related. And no, unfortunately you don't get a second VPN slot either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I'll try to hack one in, how hard could it be? 😅

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Pretty hard. If you don't have prior experience with the AOSP codebase, I'd say it's impossible. But if you want to get started, this is how to build GrapheneOS from source: https://grapheneos.org/build

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I meant it more tongue-in-cheek :)

My threat model isn't such that I need it, it's just really annoying. GrapheneOS does allow blocking network per-app, which is a sufficient workaround. It's a bit tedious, but I can do the following:

  1. disable network on sensitive apps
  2. disable NetGuard and enable other VPN
  3. finish what I was doing
  4. undo step 2
  5. undo step 1

I really wish there was a way to get VPNs and NetGuard playing nicely together. I want all traffic to be filtered by NetGuard, and then routed over the VPN. This is trivial on Linux, but apparently not so on Android, which is a shame.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There might be an easier way to accomplish this. The RethinkDNS app has a built-in Firewall and WireGuard VPN client. It also allows you to configure per-app Wifi and cellular data separately. The only caveat is that you would need to manually import the WireGuard profiles from your VPN provider.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks, I'll check it out. :) That should do nicely.