Siloing, or defense in depth, is always a good idea! In my country, there is no way to have a phone number or a SIM card without tying it to one’s government issued personal identification number, so personally, I’d use my compromised phone to tether Internet to the private phone. Using the gorgeous VPN Hotspot app, I can even tether a VPN connection without leakage. This of course doesn’t counter location tracking through cell tower triangulation, but then again, this post wasn’t specifically about that, so. 😄

Yeah, I failed to mention that this is not about updating but installing from scratch.

I think we’ve got off track. Stevenblack’s is already shipped with AdAway. AdAway works perfectly fine with Magisk’s systemless hosts. I have no other reason for wanting to change to another app than the fact that it hasn’t been updated since 2024.

You mean systemless hosts works without being called/used by an app? Do you know the systemless hosts file path?

Interesting! And thank you! I already see a hosts file under /system/etc/, for now only containing localhost. Could I not just edit this file and be done? I know too little about how Android works…

If I do need to mount /system, can I not do it from the stock recovery? I think I saw a “mount system partition” in there the other day.

That’s a great idea for the ad blocking, which is what I am writing about in the OP, but I also would like to be able to block specific hosts and IP addresses on a hosts file level, in order to stop system apps from connecting.

Thanks! For this, I am using Mullvad’s ad blocking DNS. 😊 I want to be able to block specific hosts and IP addresses on a hosts file level in order to block certain system apps from connecting.

Sweet! Thank you for your contribution! :D

I use it for media only, if I can’t find it on 1337x.

Hey! Thank you so much! 🥰 I did see an issue over at Codeberg in which somebody reported something similar to my problem and to which a dev (?) replied just that! I tried applying that specific configuration (which would grab the apk from their new repo), but to no avail.

Thanks! I’ll clearify that in the OP. It’s the download that doesn’t work. It hangs at 30% and then fails.

I already had it installed on another unit, on which I used the apk extraction function of App Manager.

Installing from Obtainium has always worked for me and their site lists Obtainium as a valid install method.

I have been running a non degoogled (although heavily stripped down) Samsung Galaxy S23 without Private Compute for two years without problems. With that said, I am not using any proprietary apps from the Google ecosystem, so I cannot speak for those that do.

For those of us not affected immediately by this, let’s fire up some i2p, tor and simplex routers in order to contribute.

ip2

tor

As with tor, where you have the choice to run bridges if you are unable to contribute with a node/server that is vulnerable to identifying your person, simply installing i2p and letting it run is enough to contribute with bandwidth to the network, even if you’re not using it yourself.

Edit: and for i2p, you don’t even need a public IP, as opposed to tor bridges.

You’ll know in about nine months, give or take, depending on when you went unprotected.

You tell me. 🤣 Maybe the smell? Or some chemical?

Nice! I have switched out all my socks for wool ones, because of how well they transfer moisture away fron the body. 😊

Only here for the comments 😅

But also, reading all the comments, suddenly my total upload amount of 120 terabytes with a ratio of 25-ish on public trackers feels… Unappreciated? 😂 Can somebody please pat me on the head, telling me to keep seeding? :3

The only time dickpics are okay.

Hah! Nice catch! Thanks! 🥰