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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: Blocking access to the internet can help:
- reduce your data usage • reduce your data usage
- save your battery • save your battery
- increase your privacy • increase your privacy
Features: Features:
- No root required • No root required
- Simple to use • Simple to use
- Free of charge • Free of charge
- Open source • Open source
- No extra battery usage • No extra battery usage
- No bandwidth reduction • No bandwidth reduction
- No calling home • No calling home
- No tracking or analytics • No tracking or analytics
- No ads • No ads
- No internet permission required • No internet permission required
- IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP supported • IPv4/IPv6 TCP/UDP supported
- Optionally allow when screen on • Optionally allow when screen on
- Optionally block when roaming • Optionally block when roaming
- Optionally block system applications • Optionally block system applications
- Material design • 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. 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. 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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@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ Features:
* Optionally block system applications * Optionally block system applications
* Material design * 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. 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. 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), Routing selected traffic into a sinkhole relies on an API introduced in Android 5.0 (Lollipop),