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But why do I need an app to connect to it when VPN connectivity is part of Android?

• rcMgD2BwE72F 4y ago
  Because that's the only way to do ad blocking for all apps without actually connecting to a remote VPN. Blokada works great for that and Google, an advertising company, does not like that. Same for DNS66: >The app establishes a VPN service, with routes for all DNS servers diverted to it. The VPN service then intercepts the packages for the servers and forwards any DNS queries that are not blacklisted. >Custom upstream DNS can be configured. If the feature is turned off, the current connection's DNS servers are used. The app ships are pre-defined list of well known (mostly German) non-logging servers courtesy of the Chaos Computer Club. https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66#user-content-how-it-works https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66#user-content-how-it-wo...
• codedokode 4y ago
  Because VPN doesn't connect to any servers and runs locally, just filtering the traffic between apps and Internet. "VPN" here is not a real VPN client, but an application that can capture traffic created by apps. As I understand, Android doesn't provide other means to implement a firewall.
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• smilliken 4y ago
  Because the vpn client and server run locally, with no remote dependency. This is how NetGuard and many others work.