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Proxy per app? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/android

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Is there any way I can use a proxy on Android on a per app basis instead of system wide? Just like for some who don't want absolutely everything to be routed through a VPN, some VPNs offer the option to include/exclude applications. That's exactly what I'd like to do, just with a proxy on my phone.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Multiple VPN apps on Android allows you to set per-app rules including forwarding to different VPN servers

The Cloudflare app allows setting exclusions

However you can't have 2+ active VPN connections simultaneously on Android without root, so while for example OpenVPN allows you to set multiple VPN profiles with different app exclusions (binding chosen apps to a certain VPN connection) you're forced to pair this with a firewall to keep different groups of apps offline while their VPN profile is inactive, then switch which apps are online by switching VPN profile.

Alternatively - set up a single Wireguard VPN to your own server somewhere (it may be a rented VPS) and then set multiple outgoing VPN connections on that server, and then set forwarding rules based on which domains/IP each app communicates with (beware that this may make a mess with browsers and such if for example a single web page gets split over different VPN sessions due to content being hosted across different servers on the same page)