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by propogandist 2169 days ago
+1 Netguard. It's an essential app, along with Firefox with ad-blocking add-ons.

Netguard by the same dev behind Xpirvacy, which provides dummy data to apps that try to send back all sorts of unique identifiers to the mothership (+apps like facebook).

Most popular apps call facebook IPs at launch, along with other analytics services. It's quite disgusting.

https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard