• MrSulu@lemmy.ml
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    20 hours ago

    Timing is excellent for me. Would RethingDNS & Firewall (using both features) provide a “pseudo” Graphene OS like environment? If not, is the more affordable Fairphone 6 worth the costs?

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      15 hours ago

      i would sell your current phone if you can’t get a AOSP rom and get the fairphone if you can afford it.

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      15 hours ago

      It’s better than the default, but such firewalls are installed at the user level while Google’s services are installed at the root level and are known to bypass VPNs and VPN-style firewalls, including RethinkDNS, on occasion.

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        7 hours ago

        Rethink actually seems to block Play Services if you choose to configure Rethink a certain way. It is delightful watching Play Services become more and more desperate. Trying other states, other countries, and even other Google devices on your local network in a desperate attempt to get online and shit telemetry back to Google.

        Same can’t be said about iOS. Apple routes their 17.x.x.x network and other traffic outside userspace, immune to even full-tunnel VPN. Android networking isn’t that capable.

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          2 hours ago

          I’m starting to explore RethinkDNS. Any tips or directions on the subtleties would be brilliant please

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          6 hours ago

          That sounds a lot more satisfying than I would have imagined. How do I set it up in that way?