NONoGravitas·Aug 31, 2021
Github link for Nebulo appears wrong: is this the correct one?
https://github.com/Ch4t4r/Nebulo
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Nebulo
Mirror of https://git.frostnerd.com/PublicAndroidApps/smokescreen. Feel free to contribute here as well.
2Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
264GitHub stars
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Mirror of https://git.frostnerd.com/PublicAndroidApps/smokescreen. Feel free to contribute here as well.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Feb 8 | 2021-02-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-02-15 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Feb 15 | 2021-02-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-02-22 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Feb 22 | 2021-02-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 1 | 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-03-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 8 | 2021-03-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-03-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 15 | 2021-03-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 22 | 2021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 29 | 2021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 5 | 2021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 12 | 2021-04-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 19 | 2021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 26 | 2021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-05-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 3 | 2021-05-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-05-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 10 | 2021-05-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-05-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 17 | 2021-05-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-05-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 24 | 2021-05-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-05-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 31 | 2021-05-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-06-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 7 | 2021-06-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-06-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 14 | 2021-06-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-06-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 21 | 2021-06-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-06-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 28 | 2021-06-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-07-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 5 | 2021-07-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-07-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 12 | 2021-07-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-07-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 19 | 2021-07-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-07-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 26 | 2021-07-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-08-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2 | 2021-08-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-08-09 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 9 | 2021-08-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 16 | 2021-08-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-08-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 23 | 2021-08-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-08-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 30 | 2021-08-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
5 sources> prevents apps and browsers installed on your device from sending your private data (known as tracking fingerprints) to the Internet.
For now, Blokada's utility is limited to DNS-based content blocking. It cannot and does not prevent most forms of fingerprinting.
> Is it doing some kind of packet inspection?
Yes, only DNS packet inspection, but even for the only thing it does, it is clumsy: It leaks DNS requests; that is, Blokada does not trap all DNS traffic on port 53, and it does not handle DNS queries sent over TCP. DNS66 has these same issues, too.
> As a secondary layer of blocking I use DNS66 which intercepts DNS requests and fails them for blacklisted domains, by installing itself as a virtual VPN - essentially a cooked /etc/hosts for Android.
Blokada uses the same trick (I mean, core parts of Blokada 4 code-base does bear simila
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rities with DNS66 which preceded it... Blokada 5 however was re-written in Rust).
> Would Blokada work alongside that?
No, it cannot. But: Apps that support "DNS proxying" (like Nebulo [0]) can. It is quite an involved setup. I'd simply use Nebulo over DNS66, as it is not only more capable but also encrypts DNS traffic unlike Blokada 4 or DNS66.
> ...but you seem to be a good person to ask..
A disclosure, rather something to keep in mind: I have been accused of spreading fud by the Blokada lead developer and using it to "market" a "competitor" app I co-develop. In my defense, it wasn't / isn't fud what I spread, unless fud === uncomfortable truth.
[0] https://github.com/ch4t4r/Nebulo (fixed link, thanks u/NoGravitas)
TrackerControl doesn't encrypt your DNS queries, though. You'd need to proxy DNS requests to another app like http://github.com/ch4t4r/Nebulo which supports DoT / DoH3 / DoH for that.
(disclosure: I co-develop a FOSS TrackerControl alternative)
In CalyxOS – De-Googled Android Alternative> Apologies, I saw a different issue and did not realize those concerns had already been addressed.
My bad. I'm sorry, too. In fact, I may be solely at fault here for over-reacting to your comment. My reaction really stems from an unpleasant r/Android experience where folks just piled up on BraveDNS (as it was called then) with utter non-sense and blatant, misleading lies.
> I had assumed at first blush this was yet another scammy SaaS product with a corresponding app...
This isn't the first time I've heard from folks that the whole thing comes off as scammy / scareware. Is it the website design? The copy? The readme on GitHub? The name of the project?
> Can you suggest where I can read more about its security deficiencies, or by "insecure" do you just mean to say it is an incomplete solution?
DNS66 is insecure in the sense it doesn't do
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any form of encryption for DNS requests [0] and, like most other DNS clients, it leaks DNS connections over TCP (only handles UDP) [1].
I wouldn't call it incomplete, it is likely fully complete in the eyes of the original developers. A DNS client can definitely do more, and that's why RethinkDNS exists in the first place. I used to use Nebulo [2] which is super light weight, supports DNS over HTTPS/3 (QUIC), and has way more features than any other DNS client I've come across.
[0] https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66/issues/11
[1] https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66/blob/4f1304746e2/app/s...
[2] https://github.com/Ch4t4r/Nebulo
It is on the main developer's f-droid repo: https://github.com/Ch4t4r/Nebulo#f-droid
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