afwall

I have heard good things about this one. But i think this one of those no root firewalls that uses the vpn, so I figure this means I can't use a VPN at the same time. An alternative android root only option is afwall+ which allows blocking on lte, WiFi, lan, and VPN separately, and script access to iptables. Not sure how actively developed it is, but it seems to work ok. *edit: Seems to still be active, open source, and available on fdroid too. https://github.com/ukanth/afwall

Sadly all real firewalls need root. I was using AFWall+ for a long time it has neat controls for every app to allow or deny Wifi, Cell or LAN (if you have). It is a iptables/nftables frontend so you can customize the rules to your heart's content: https://github.com/ukanth/afwall Works from Android 2+ Without root only VPN solutions like Adguard are available. EDIT: if you want neat stats: Glasswire has an Android version. I have only used the beta so I have no idea about its current state. Might be worth checking out though.

Though there's little you can do to escape Google if you are using Android, what gives me some sort of peace is blocking internet access to apps like gboard. (AFAIK it's the only keyboard with support to inline autofill; this is literally the only reason keeping me from torching the app) https://github.com/ukanth/afwall

On Pixel and Nexus phones, the Google Camera app works properly if you have either microG or Google Play Services installed. If you're using microG, you'll need to install the Google Camera app manually: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/camera/ The camera quality and features are the same as in the stock ROM. Google Camera is proprietary, but you can disable its internet access through the app settings (in LineageOS) or a firewall like AFWall+: https://github.com/ukanth/afwall/ If you're using another camera app, then you'll lose Google Camera's optimized features. This may still be worth it if you prefer to use FOSS software.

Not sure about this but I think yes. China has network filtering software for VPNs, in fact, the more advanced anti VPN blocker tools are Chinese due to the firewall. They have several websites blocked like Google, Facebook (no OAuth integrations). Anything that involves networking might suffer. They would probably get a police visit if the firewall has triggers for sshing into a server (common in devops). Not joking: https://github.com/ukanth/afwall/issues/420#issuecomment-262... Maybe they could work but would have serious limitations I guess. In a "communist" country, don't even know if they have a tax status for freelancing given the government behaviour. The only work around would be to have a based company in China to outsource.

I can only find NoRootFirewall via Google Store, which I don't use. In F-Droid there appears to be AFWall+[1] and NetGuard[2]. Does anyone have a comparison of these two apps, compared to NoRootFirewall, or indeed others (Blokada mentioned in other threads)? AFWall+ appears to required a rooted device for iptables, but NetGuard says no root is required. [1] https://github.com/ukanth/afwall/wiki [2] https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/

AFWall is a pretty user-friendly and configurable firewall. Let's you easily block apps from accessing the web. https://github.com/ukanth/afwall

"The blocking of WhatsApp text messages suggests that China’s censors may have developed specialized software to interfere with such messages" They don't need any 'specialized software'. You can just block the list of hostnames and IP address, found here: https://github.com/ukanth/afwall/wiki/HOWTO-blocking-WhatsAp...

I think AFWAll[1] is what you're looking for, at least the closest I know. [1] https://github.com/ukanth/afwall