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@ -19,27 +19,30 @@ Applications can individually be allowed or denied access to your Wi-Fi and/or m
Blocking access to the internet can help:
- reduce your data usage
- save your battery
- increase your privacy
• reduce your data usage
• save your battery
• increase your privacy
Features:
- No root required
- Simple to use
- Free of charge
- Open source
- No extra battery usage
- No bandwidth reduction
- No calling home
- No tracking or analytics
- No ads
- No internet permission required
- IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP supported
- Optionally allow when screen on
- Optionally block when roaming
- Optionally block system applications
- Material design
• No root required
• Simple to use
• Free of charge
• Open source
• No extra battery usage
• No bandwidth reduction
• No calling home
• No tracking or analytics
• No ads
• No internet permission required
• IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP supported
• Optionally allow when screen on
• Optionally block when roaming
• Optionally block system applications
• Material design
There is no other no-root firewall offering all these features.
Most other firewall solutions will use extra battery and reduce the overall network speed.
Most of these features are the result of sending selected traffic to a VPN sinkhole, instead of filtering all internet traffic.
This means that advanced features, like address-based filtering (needed for hosts blocking), traffic logging, and on-demand configuration, are not possible.

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* Optionally block system applications
* Material design
There is no other no-root firewall offering all these features.
Most other firewall solutions will use extra battery and reduce the overall network speed.
Most of these features are the result of sending selected traffic to a sinkhole, instead of filtering all internet traffic.
This means that advanced features, like address based filtering (needed for ad blocking), traffic logging, and on-demand configuration, are not possible.
Routing selected traffic into a sinkhole relies on an API introduced in Android 5.0 (Lollipop),