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Study Reveals How Mobile Apps Track Users Through WiFi and Bluetooth: 86% of these apps collect at least one type of sensitive data, such as GPS location or unique device identifiers (networks.imdea.org)
submitted 4 days ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] SrMono@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Not exactly what I was aiming for. 1Blocker works as local VPN. It reroutes all iPhone traffic through a local firewall/App, that drops suspicious DNS queries.

[–] Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

sounds like you are looking for rethink

https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Would it be overkill to use that with my graphenOS phone, where I don’t do much browsing etc.?

[–] Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 days ago

i dont think so, it mostly stays out of the way once its set up anyway