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Maximizing privacy on Android without custom ROMs?
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this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2024
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Cutoff internet access on all apps that expressly do not need it. Install Netguard or the likes if you don't used a VPN and see what apps are calling home.
I thought you needed root for app-level firewalls?
Straight from their site.
NetGuard provides simple and advanced ways to block access to the internet - no root required. Applications and addresses can individually be allowed or denied access to your Wi-Fi and/or mobile connection.
Blocking access to the internet can help:
reduce your data usage save your battery increase your privacy
Edit: Uses the same slot as VPN on a phone. Thus you have one or the other. Not both. PC is different.
Unfortunately I cannot use a VPN because several apps I use (including android auto) do not work with it.
in netGuard you can create exceptions for apps that "do not work with" a vpn
how on earth does that work? I thought it had to have an always-on VPN connection to do any filtering (or not)
it's an "always-on vpn connection". NetGuard passes through the apps in the exception list unfiltered
exactly... it needs the vpn to even pass anything through... but the apps that don't work with vpns... don't work with vpns. as in, it detects the presence of an android vpn connection and refuses to work, it's not related to what internet connection it actually uses, just that a system-controlled vpn is active on the device.
Then perhaps this could be a way for you to lockdown internet traffic to and from your device. Major privacy improvement.
I don't understand how if this requires a VPN which I can't use?