My phone is spying on me, so I decided to spy on it

Re:My phone is spying on me, so I decided to spy on it by eximius on Thursday October 25, 2018 @09:52AM (#18300863)

Just tried it. It uses a VPN so you can't use it if you already use a VPN. :/

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Re:My phone is spying on me, so I decided to spy on it by ShorsHammer on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:10AM (#18300993)

Without root there's no other way to route all traffic and android doesn't allow chained vpn's.

It's an excellent app, source code is on github, eventually ended up paying for it. There's far too many apps and system binaries dialing out, it's funny to watch in realtime. What's more amazing is how nothing breaks even when you lock down everything but the few things that need it. Blocking is fine grained and you'll have to scroll through a massive list if you choose to view system apps, but quite happy overall.

Main benefit of the paid option is pcap files. Free version does everything most will want. It's on fdroid.

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Re:My phone is spying on me, so I decided to spy on it by eximius on Thursday October 25, 2018 @01:50PM (#18302882)

If anyone came up with a list of domains, I'd gladly add them to my DNS server to block them. But I won't give up my VPN.:/

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Re:My phone is spying on me, so I decided to spy on it by 72deluxe on Friday October 26, 2018 @08:08AM (#18308472)

I run pihole on a Raspberry Pi3 at home and you'd be wowed at the amount of dialling home all devices so, and metrics. With a network of Apple iPad/Mac, Windows and Android devices, it's over 25% of all DNS requests that I block.

Useless once you take your phone off WiFi of course, but still baffling the amount of metric abuse going on, and entirely without warning (am within the EU so concerned by it!)

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