NetGuard - https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.faircode.netguard/
TrackerControl - https://f-droid.org/packages/net.kollnig.missioncontrol.fdroid/
How was your experience with them? Differences in battery life etc.
Another doubt:
I had tried NetGuard some years ago to restrict internet access of apps like Gboard n Gdrive(I use the pdfviewer associated with it. Any lightweight foss alternatives to it?).
Was planning to use it again, but saw that eventhough they have a recent update, their Github doesn’t allow issues and the latest pull request are from 2023. Is there some change in the app? Have they transferred to Gitlab or Codeberg.
I don’t know much details about programming, so asking the doubt here because of the Simple apps transfer issue that I heard recently.
Thanks in advance.
Edit: Mentioned the usecase for gdrive
Tracker control let’s me know if I can live without an app from the playstore 👍
How??
But I’d prefer to have a VPN on instead of TC, but if android had two VPN slots that would be amazing. Also some of the flags are for normal running of the apps, e.g. pipepipe needs to contact YouTube to get videos for you to watch.
TV let’s you turn off various flags per app.
As someone else said you probably want RethinkDNS.
If you want to get away from Simple Mobile Tools (and you should, they sold out to an ad company) you should look at the fork here https://github.com/FossifyOrg they are on f-droid
Tracker control is pretty fantastic. It blocks an incredible amount of communication from every app including advertisements.
Examples:
- I love Gboard and detest Google’s data theft. And so, my gboard is now cut off from Google and offline with all features still available.
- I’ve made simple games like Mahjong entirely offline.
- I block dozens of trackers for apps I pay for which I think inappropriately steal information. Why on earth is Paramount+ trying to contact 43+ companies. Or AP contacting 32?
Tracker Control is a very very useful tool.
And… It uses only a tiny fraction of my battery. I’m talking 0.13% the last 24 hours.
Thank you.
It says that private dns must be disabled. Is there a way to use both? Or add it into trackercontrol?
Edit:
The private dns stuff does not seem to be an issue for restricting net access to apps.TC runs as a (local I assume) VPN service. So doubt it.
