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my apologies for the long screenshot. i had purchased adguard's vpn service for five years since its primary adguard service is well know in the iapple ecosystem.

on android, though, their app appears to send data to a lot of third-parties. has it always been this compromised? am i a fool to go for their vpn services as well?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

this is a possibility. one that i haven't accounted for.

but is there any literature that verifies this? the closest I've found in context is this page, and I'm not able to resolve what you're saying with whats on there: https://adguard.com/kb/general/ad-filtering/filter-policy/

i don't have enough info yet to update the post with this conjecture.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

You need to contact them, if they connect to known to-be-blocked sites to get their IPs.

Googerteller does this:

Note: Find it ironic or not, but to query the list of all Google IPs/subnets, this needs to contact one Google domain, actually. (That request does not emit a sound, though.)

And I would ask DDG how their "tracker blocker" works and if it would also block such requests.0