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by jeroenhd 169 days ago
You can on some devices (many Chinese brands, funnily enough) and on custom ROMs.

There are also (open source) firewall apps that will let you block (non-system) apps if you're on a stock ROM like me.

Technically, this is a permission, just not a user-grantable one. Google has moved quite a few permissions from inherent to user-grantable, but most apps don't work without internet (unfortunately) so I doubt they will do it for the internet permission in stock android.