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?
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?
There’s probably a FOSS app that does the same thing without ads and tracking
DNS66 from F-Droid.
RethinkDNS might be good too. I think it’s more powerful, and it’s on F-Droid too.
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.
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