Netguard doesn’t work with a VPN.
Because it presents itself as a VPN. You can’t run two VPNs at the same time.
What’s the difference between this and disabling the network permission?
I like AFWall+. It requires root, but it’s free and works with a VPN.
I use TrackerControl (F-Droid) which can filter domains to block per app.
This also doesn’t work with a VPN
You can use port forwarding.
No everyone is using a VPN
Well these programs actually ARE VPNs.
I wonder if they provide any protection? Free VPN anyone?
Protection against what?
Dropping your pants to every site you visit, telling them where you live and who your Internet provider is, yadida yadida.
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.
That’s not how that works
☞ “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.
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).
you can do the same with netGuard 👍
I’m gonna try it, ty
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.
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it not a good option to “block” internet connection on android.
it not a good option to “block” internet connection on android.
why it not good? what you disappoint?
If you have Google Play Services installed, other apps can still talk to it and send you info to Google even when you have blocked the internet access for those apps.
that has nothing to do with netGuard though.
you can either uninstall gms 👍 or filter it’s connections with netGuard by enabling “manage system apps” from “advanced options”
Exactly, it has some leak points. Only GrapheneOS approach is effective to truly block internet connection. Even iptables block connection is flawed
“GrapheneOS adds a Network permission toggle for disallowing both direct and indirect access to any of the available networks. The device-local network (localhost) is also guarded by this permission, which is important for preventing apps from using it to communicate between profiles. Unlike a firewall-based implementation, the Network permission toggle prevents apps from using the network via APIs provided by the OS or other apps in the same profile as long as they’re marked appropriately”
Same thing with cancer and any illness really. Graphene is the one true solution
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