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I'd rather just firewall off AS15169, which also solves other Google-related problems for entire networks of machines.
by _jal 5y ago
I'd rather just firewall off AS15169, which also solves other Google-related problems for entire networks of machines.
- xanaxagoras 5y agoI like this idea except for YouTube, I don't want to have to stay on top of what IPs are used for its main page, API, thumbnails, etc.
- lucb1e 5y agoA more practical approach, on mobile at least, is TrackerControl which will let you choose which trackers you want to allow per app. E.g. I can allow Spotify to connect to some CDN but not Facebook, and disallow internet access altogether for a photo editor and my keyboard. You can let a browser with privacy extensions access Google services but not other apps that don't need it. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.kollnig.missioncontrol.fdroid/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.kollnig.missioncontrol.f... I'm not affiliated, just a fan. No root needed, it pretends to be a VPN. It does take some time to set this up, though, especially if you take the strict approach and block all trackers for all apps by default.
- xanaxagoras 5y agoI tried this when I switched to a privacy ROM but ultimately I can't cough up my 1 VPN slot, I need to be always on my home network to use the various self hosted services I rely on. I heard on matrix that at some point Datura Firewall may allow more fine grained host level blocking, fingers crossed.
- lucb1e 5y agoYou can set an upstream SOCKS5 proxy in the settings, in case that helps.