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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

ReThinkDNS ๐Ÿ‘‘

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Netguard doesn't work with a VPN.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Because it presents itself as a VPN. You can't run two VPNs at the same time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

What's the difference between this and disabling the network permission?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I use TrackerControl (F-Droid) which can filter domains to block per app.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This also doesn't work with a VPN

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You can use port forwarding.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No everyone is using a VPN

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well these programs actually ARE VPNs.

I wonder if they provide any protection? Free VPN anyone?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Dropping your pants to every site you visit, telling them where you live and who your Internet provider is, yadida yadida.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It's not an actual VPN, it just tells the OS that it is and then routes traffic from blocked apps to 127.0.0.1 or 0.0.0.0 rather than a real VPN endpoint.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That's not how that works

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

โ˜ž "The development of TrackerControl was led by Konrad Kollnig (University of Oxford). The underlying network analysis functionality is provided by the NetGuard Firewall, developed by Marcel Bokhorst."

if you tried both, you would see that they are basically the same app.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except TC includes a domain blocking list, so the filtering isn't just per app, but specific connections for that app (so you can block the ad trackers but allow the main server location for the app).

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

you can do the same with netGuard ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm gonna try it, ty

[โ€“] seaQueue 3 points 1 week ago

Adguard for Android can do similar firewalling, that's all I've bothered to setup for myself.

It's a paid app but you get 30d to try all of the features before you commit and you can always VPN to Romania or a similar low CoL country to buy a lifetime license.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I like AFWall+. It requires root, but it's free and works with a VPN.