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On Android you can do exactly that with an app like NoRoot firewall: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.greyshirts.firewall&hl=en_US https://pla
by tga 6y ago
On Android you can do exactly that with an app like NoRoot firewall:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.greyshirts.firewall&hl=en_US https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.greyshirts...
For example it helped me find a trustworthy e-mail client (K-mail) by only allowing network access to my email server.
- anticonformist 6y agoThat is cool but now you're relying on some random third-party app developer for your security/privacy. Even if they're good people, there's nothing to stop them from selling it to some jerk that will enable their own apps to bypass it and/or enable other shady developers to bypass it for money. This kind of software can also be difficult to get right. There may be ways to easily bypass it. If Google did this, I'd seriously consider going back to Android.
- entha_saava 6y agoThere appear to be at least one open source thing that does the same: netguard