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Re:Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with... by m463 on Monday February 08, 2021 @01:22AM (#26061388)
Charles must have some wild carveout from apple. All other apps that do that have been shut down. I still run a very old version of adblockios that starts a vpn (proxy) at 127.0.0.1 and blocks traffic that way. mostly.
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Re:Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with... by mbreese on Monday February 08, 2021 @01:53AM (#26061543)
I think the parental control app Circle does something similar (faux-vpn proxy). When I tried using Circle, it seemed a bit convoluted to me, so we ended up uninstalling it. So, I’m not sure how unique this method is. But, I’m not sure I can think of another way for a network blocking/security app to work on iOS.
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Re:Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with... by ignoramous on Monday February 08, 2021 @04:08AM (#26062267)
https://firewalla.com is another one.
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