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by dblohm7 1472 days ago
I still miss the good old days of Android when apps didn't automatically receive the internet permission.

Now get off my lawn.

2 comments

Afwall+ is your friend. No app should ever get internet access unless it's needed for it to work.
I've been running netguard for this reason, yeah. Many have no need for internet access.

As a bonus, the DNS-based adblocking works extremely well. Not perfect, but dramatically better than nothing at all.

firefox supports ublock origin on android :)