After the discussion in the following post I dug a bit deeper the rabbit hole.

While I mostly relied on Exodus to see if an app has trackers in it… I was baffle to see all the sketchy requests it made while dumping the DNS requests with PCAPdroid

Over 200 shady requests in a few seconds after login… here’s a preview:

While I don’t use AdguardVPN, I have Adguard Home as my DNS server in my homelab… I think It’s time to switch to pi-hole !

Edit: VPN pcapdroid

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    8 months ago

    N0x0n started as a skeptic and used one piece of software to test it, I used NetGuard and was pretty skeptical myself… do you have the VPN app and can you test too?