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I have used NetGuard on Android to block internet access to certain apps. https://netguard.me/ https://netguard.me/
by notjulianjaynes 3y ago
I have used NetGuard on Android to block internet access to certain apps.
https://netguard.me/ https://netguard.me/
- VcZar 3y agoThanks for this. How do I trust their VPN is not just harvesting my data?
- notjulianjaynes 3y agoIt's not a VPN service like the type you'd use for privacy. The VPN part all happens on your device so there's no data being sent to a third party for them to harvest to begin with. Not sure if that is what you meant. If your concern is more generally about the app being malicious, I suppose you could audit the source code. But this is not something I have done or even am qualified to do, so I don't know.
- VcZar 3y agoThanks.
- autoexec 3y agoDoes it stop data from leaving your device or just collect it all as a proxy and refuse to forward some of it. I'd much prefer to not have to hand all my traffic over to anyone offering a free app and just trust them not to use/abuse it.
- kevincox 3y agoHow these apps "should" work (IDK how this one does) is use the VPN API to capture traffic then filter it locally. The traffic should then leave the device as regular internet traffic, no VPN tunnel.
- notjulianjaynes 3y agoThis is how it works. Downside is that you can't also use a VPN alongside this. (Maybe that's changed haven't used it recently.)