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Re:My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveill... by Abishek_Muthian on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:20PM (#25292409)
I would highly recommend NetGuard to block individual app's network access and to enable them only as and when needed.

[1]https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.netguard/

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Re:My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveill... by asjkaehauisa on Sunday December 06, 2020 @02:46PM (#25326075)
If you have a newer version of android (9+), you can do it without 3d app.

https://www.digitalcitizen.life/how-block-internet-access-sp...

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Re:My Phone Was Spying on Me, So I Tracked Down the Surveill... by Abishek_Muthian on Sunday December 06, 2020 @11:10PM (#25329250)
True, but Netguard provides many more features such as alert on new app, access logs, whitelist/blacklist capabilities etc.
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