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by opinologo 2321 days ago
I use and love Netguard. It's great to see the trackers every app is connecting to but can't see a global option to block a particular domain across the board. I can only block on a case by case app.. Maybe they added this option recently?
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It's only in the github version due to play store rules. And it's a global DNS based blacklist.

I wish there was global or group based ip rules though, since there's no way to whitelist DNS per app or temporarily, without completely turning off filtering.

It's kind of a pain, honestly. Some of the developers decisions seem pretty arbitrary to me. It's so close to being a must have app. I wish I had time to get familiar with the code.

That said, it's still my favorite option since losing adhell3 again.

I've only seen across-the-board, though you can allow individual apps to bypass the filter entirely. I think it's just a filter on DNS requests, but for APKs from github:

    settings -> backup -> import hosts file
You may also need to enable traffic filtering, I forget. that's at:

    settings -> advanced -> Filter traffic + Block domain names
The github apks notify you about updates and link right to the download page, so they're pretty painless to use.