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leftystrat

leftystrat

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It's over a year since I got mine.
Insurance is worth whatever you pay for it. The phone got heavily damaged after it tried to commit suicide by leaping off a shelf. It still worked but it was kinda bent. They shipped me a new one next day (after 'deductible').

This phone is a Ferrari. It's got more horsepower than anything I've owned. It has to have horsepower because I do mods, including a firewall. I'm a privacy nazi.

I'll be keeping it for the foreseeable future. I kept the G4 years until it started to loop. LG gets no love, but I do what I can to spread the news. I've made converts.

Got android 9 months back. Very little visible because I use Nova, so it always looks the same.

Phone on.
 
Awesome post. I've never owned an LG, but I'm always happy to see a happy phone owner. :)
 
leftystrat said:
This phone is a Ferrari. It's got more horsepower than anything I've owned. It has to have horsepower because I do mods, including a firewall. I'm a privacy nazi.
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I am privacy Nazi myself. Would you mind to share what firewall you use and any specific settings?

I installed AdGuard for Android from here https://adguard.com/en/adguard-android/overview.html and it blocks ads in my Freecell game and even has local VPN.
 
MozartMan said:
I am privacy Nazi myself. Would you mind to share what firewall you use and any specific settings?

I installed AdGuard for Android from here https://adguard.com/en/adguard-android/overview.html and it blocks ads in my Freecell game and even has local VPN.
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If your phone is rooted, try AFWall+. It's a very good, root-required, Open Source firewall app. Because it's developed and works at a system-level service it relies upon iptables, the integral firewall service to the Linux kernel itself. Being a GUI front-end to the already existing iptables, it's also lower resource utility, and it won't conflict with a VPN service (like what AdGuard uses.
AFWall+
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.ukanth.ufirewall&hl=en_US

If your phone is not rooted however, that limits your options. There some good,non-root firewall apps but like AdGuard since they're just installed as user-level apps they don't have system-level permissions -- they don't have any direct access to iptables.so they instead use a local VPN service. That local VPN service is what firewall apps and ad-blocking apps use to filter incoming or outgoing data. The issue being you can only have one VPN service at a time actively running on your phone, so you need to choose between either a ad blocker app or a firewall app. Anyway, if you opt for a firewall, I'd recommend NetGuard. It's a good non-root firewall app with a good feature set. It's also an Open Source project with active support and development.
NetGuard
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.netguard&hl=en_US
 
svim said:
If your phone is rooted, try AFWall+. It's a very good, root-required, Open Source firewall app. Because it's developed and works at a system-level service it relies upon iptables, the integral firewall service to the Linux kernel itself. Being a GUI front-end to the already existing iptables, it's also lower resource utility, and it won't conflict with a VPN service (like what AdGuard uses.
AFWall+
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.ukanth.ufirewall&hl=en_US

If your phone is not rooted however, that limits your options. There some good,non-root firewall apps but like AdGuard since they're just installed as user-level apps they don't have system-level permissions -- they don't have any direct access to iptables.so they instead use a local VPN service. That local VPN service is what firewall apps and ad-blocking apps use to filter incoming or outgoing data. The issue being you can only have one VPN service at a time actively running on your phone, so you need to choose between either a ad blocker app or a firewall app. Anyway, if you opt for a firewall, I'd recommend NetGuard. It's a good non-root firewall app with a good feature set. It's also an Open Source project with active support and development.
NetGuard
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.netguard&hl=en_US
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Thanks Svim.
 
Well mp3's are easy to move so if you can do that your phone is running the latest possible OS. Trying to move apps from main memory to a MicroSD card is no longer allowed and requires rooting to make it possible.
 
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