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I miss when Network Access was an authorisation you could restrict to some apps. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.ml

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Yes you can monitor which app eats what, and probably circumvent this with a vpn layer, but sometimes I just wish I would be able to pause an app's access to the net

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[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If the apps don't work without network access and they don't have an obvious need for network access, then I don't want them on my phone. If that's the case, then either app is poorly made or it is being used to spy on people with unnecessary telemetry.

[–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 days ago

In my case it was soundcore's app (no, openscq30 didn't work), so it had a need for network access to update the firmware, for example, I just didn't want to give it at the moment. As for being poorly made, also not exactly: as I've mentioned, android gives this permission by default, and it's reasonable to assume it stays so. Graphene basically "breaks userspace" here.