I might have misunderstood this but is Android really trying to push this as tracking as a privacy upgrade, simply because it let’s us choose which of our interests we want advertisers to have access to?

  • Hamartiogonic
    11·
    10 months ago

    When I started using NextDNS, I changed my mind about that. It’s a bit like having a pi-hole with you even when you’re not on your home network.

    • Fisch@lemmy.ml
      3·
      10 months ago

      There’s probably a FOSS app that does the same thing without ads and tracking

        • LWD@lemm.ee
          3·
          10 months ago

          RethinkDNS might be good too. I think it’s more powerful, and it’s on F-Droid too.

          • Mark@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            Their content blocking seems to run on a cloud service that you connect to via their app but it looks like it works the same for the end user.

            • LWD@lemm.ee
              3·
              10 months ago

              It’s pretty multifaceted. I’ve got a half dozen on-device blocklists enabled, along with some app-specific filters.

              Due to some Android quirk I’ve also been unable to use their DNS