Hi,
I am looking for a firewall that would allow me to control which application can connect to the internet. After making some search, I've found these :
1. DroidWall
2.WhisperMonitor
3.AndFire
Since my device is not rooted, Droidwall is not useful. Have anyone tried Whispermonitor and AndFire? Which is the most useful firewall between the two or do you know another app?
Thanks!
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Does anyone know a widget that can one-click enable a configured VPN? All widgets I can find only enable VPN's configured in the program itself instead of the VPN's configured on the system, usually those applications also don't support OpenVPN.
The closest I can find (on CM7.1 and the market) is adding a settings-widget that opens the VPN settings. This allready reduces the amount of clicks to two.
Is it technically even possible to make a widget for this?
this app
maybe help you quickvpn (market search)
QuickVPN does not have a one-click widget for my homescreen and doesn't use the internal VPN settings.
Have you tried "1 VPN"?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.doenter.onevpn
1-VPN is the same story... It uses it's own sources for VPN rather then the android VPN settings.
It isn't possible using the Android SDK, but some manufacturers expose it using their own SDKs (according to this).
It's something I'd like to support with Awesome Widgets, but it might be hard to support all phones satisfactorily. I guess a fallback would be to show the settings if it wasn't possible with a particular phone
All the best,
Ash
Wouldn't it be less of an issue when using a custom rom? (I use CM7.1 on my Desire Z)
Yeah, if you have root access it's probably not too difficult (with a bit of java reflection), but I don't think the majority of users will know anything about custom roms or root access.
They'll feel conned when it doesn't work on their standard device, something I'd like to avoid
I think quick vpn client can help you in this. or else you can check android market for some sort of widgets. I haven't tried it but i am looking to get best paid vpn service and free vpn service for htc chacha...?
Looking for some opinions/advice regarding my security/privacy needs:
A way to prevent MITM attacks when using public wifi points.
A way to prevent Android from phoning home with who knows what kind of info about me.
A way to prevent apps from stealing my info / tracking my movements and usage.
With regards to #1 I think I can do that by using a VPN. Question is which is better - flashing a rom like CYM 9 which has OpenVPN pre-installed - or I believe Entropy's kernel will allow us to use the OpenVPN app that is on the Market???
#2 - I originally thought that a VPN would work here too - Android still phone's home but with a fake IP. Problem is that Android will auto-connect before the VPN does. If we had a firewall app with profiles we could solve that problem but no luck so far. Next, I'm thinking that the PDroid app might solve this problem now that we have deodexed roms that will allow us to use PDroid. Possible issue here is that from what I can tell there are sometimes many Android parts grouped together into one ID so when you turn off network access for one you turn it off for all?? Last I'm wondering (I have never used custom ROM's before) if ROM's such as CYM 9 have already gotten rid of all the "phone Home" problems and therefore we don't need to worry about it at all if we use one of these ROM's???
#3 I think a combination of PDroid and a firewall will solve this issue.
Your help would be greatly appreciated!!
Hi friends ..
Server FortiGuard web filter at work I put, I'm looking for these filters to overcome the android software, thank you in advance for your help ..
Note: Seeking the program is dns exchange program, a program that can change the server like ultrasurf
Orbot (Tor-Vidalia)
Have you tried Orbot?
It is available on play store.
Yep Orbot would be the best choice but would be also slow, first try to use a proxy website, like hidemyass...
my problem is that i have a non rooted phone with vpn always on and im searching for an app to activating ad block on it.
My fix for it would be to use an android wide proxy or a custom dns that overrides vpn dns.
as title said an root app or an app that provides vpn solution wouldnt be what im searching for. I had once an adblock app that routes traffic trough local proxy beside the vpn but cant find it anymore
Update: i found AdHell but its only for Samsung Devices with knox. Any other solutions?
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Update: i found AdHell but its only for Samsung Devices with knox. Any other solutions?
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any news on this one?
I wanna use protonVPN and adblcoker at same time
a bit of elbow grease to protect self from Privacy Raping
Some [open]vpn clients allow vpn side connection to Socks5. Some even allow toggle of LAN access from device. I am not claiming a finish product exists but perhaps this gives you some joy.
Perhaps your socks5 instance runs in Amazon AWS free tier. Maybe it runs locally on your android handset. Perhaps you run Privoxy itself on android. [@mod: privoxy is F/OSS older than this forum]. There are a few privoxy projects for android on github. Perhaps you pick their brain. It was that against which proxomitron competed [also F/OSS. Thank God for Scott Lemmon].
Using things in differing order you might search the article to which I may not link: Privoxy on Android (with EC2 VPN)
I wanted to bring the Amazon EC2-based Privoxy service to it, by way of a VPN.
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There was no obvious way to contact the author who hasn't posted since 2016.
There is an OpenVPN service you can likely find the name of yourself offering *recently* an adblock toggle and AntiTracker toggle with a hardcode mode to protect you from predators like google and Fbook. It shouldn't be long before others emulate this functionality. It sports the vpn side socks5 option.
Or privoxy tunnel to remote [cloud (openvpn)]. See? Fun with permutations. Maybe from phone with ShadowSocks to cloud to vpn to web. "OpenVPN over shadowsocks". At this point look into sites helping Chinese dissidents.
You definitely then return here with your improvements to share.
The remaining question is how much is your time worth? Not much? Then search the web ad naseum for the 'ideal free' solution. Elsewise pony up some pennies for some cloud time as part of a solution.
Same question here !
And it seems that adhell is now only available for entreprise use
Wasn't AdGuard doing that?
yes you are right. it works with setting a private dns in the system settings with dns.adguard.com - no batterydrain - no more ads - no vpn - no root
Hi everyone,
right now I used adGuard since it works both as an ADblocker and as firewall. If possible I would rather switch to Blokada since it's open source.
The issue is that Blokada doesn't have a firewall that can block internet access to some app.
Does Samsung have an integrated firewall that I can use? I can't root the phone so I won't be able to use a custom rom or something like that :/