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?

  • Fisch
    3·
    9 months ago

    There’s probably a FOSS app that does the same thing without ads and tracking

      • LWD@lemm.ee
        3·
        9 months ago

        RethinkDNS might be good too. I think it’s more powerful, and it’s on F-Droid too.

        • Mark@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          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.

          • LWD@lemm.ee
            3·
            9 months ago

            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