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DeletedUser161 You've completely missed the point, just saying. He wants to use Mullvad VPN & Mullvad DNS servers whilst not leaking DNS, thus making him unique.
What's the best way to use Discord on GrapheneOS?
Is a PWA a Progressive Web App, and is that just discord on a web browser? I can't join servers with vanadium, the button just doesn't work and there's no indication as to why.
I was kind of hoping for a 3rd party foss frontend kinda like libretube or Nekogram X, but the only such examples of that for discord are desktop only, as far as I can tell (like Spacebar). Maybe something that uses Unified Push?
Re: simple proxy: well, mullvad has lockdown and always on, and its own DNS for broad filtering. If I can use local filtering on top of that to block discord's trackers as detailed on Aurora, then that should be fine, right?
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GlytchMeister Re: simple proxy: well, mullvad has lockdown and always on, and its own DNS for broad filtering. If I can use local filtering on top of that to block discord's trackers as detailed on Aurora, then that should be fine, right?
Just to clarify: Lockdown & Always On VPN are Mullvad VPN specific app features, the Wireguard protocol obviously isn't capable of doing so, so you're still giving away such features by using RethinkDNS's Simple Mode.
GlytchMeister If I can use local filtering on top of that to block discord's trackers as detailed on Aurora, then that should be fine, right?
Discord probably uses active fingerprinting, which makes DNS filtering & other passive tracking reduction efforts worthless, but i'm honestly not sure since i'm not using that crap.
GlytchMeister the button just doesn't work and there's no indication as to why.
Try enabling Javascript JIT. You shouldn't, but it can help. https://grapheneos.org/features
Maybe I can enable it only when I need to join a server. It doesn't happen often, but it has come up lately because I've been looking up so much info trying to get my phone set up
Oh so I can't use local filtering on top of mullvad, I'd have to use local filtering on top of wireguard. Crap.
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GlytchMeister Maybe you could run filtering at the router level? and then Mullvad VPN on your device.
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[deleted] I have never tried this yet, also now I realize my initial understanding was incorrect.
I meant that perhaps a good approach would be 1. installing Mullvad VPN on the router? ...and then employing a DNS filtering app on your device for additional filtering capabilities.
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... You absolutely can, i just told you how that can be achieved with RethinkDNS.
other8026 I'm confused. Are you talking about GrapheneOS/Android or on a computer? Because always on and block connections without VPN are both in Android.
I'm talking about Android, RethinkDNS specific features. In Advanced proxy mode, it's possible to toggle Lockdown & Always-on options. If Rethink routing component is being disabled/crashes for whatever reason, no leaks would occur. However, it's impossible to filter locally (https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app/issues/1510) in Advanced Mode. In Simple mode, you can filter locally & route the traffic through proxy, which is Mullvad VPN's DNS servers in this case, but if you were to press the stop button in Rethink, it'll route all traffic bypassing the proxy since it lacks the Lockdown Mode.
OK so here are the trackers aurora is reporting:
com.google.android.apps.analytics.
com.google.android.gms.analytics.
com.google.analytics.
com.adjust.sdk.
com.adjust.android.sdk.
io.sentry.
com.joshdholtz.sentry
Do I just plop those into Rethink's Domain Rules and just unblock whichever ones discord absolutely needs just to function?
I don't see anything about Advanced vs Simple, so I'm assuming Advanced is the DNS and Simple is the firewall?
I really don't know what I'm doing, folks, so I apologize if I'm asking stupid questions and misunderstanding stuff.
OK I've been trying to find instructions on what does what in this freaking app and I'm utterly lost, there's a switch in the settings for advanced, but I have it turned off, but when I try to activate rethink, it still asks to take up my VPN slot, which is what I don't want: I want to keep the mullvad app as my VPN and DNS (because I want the lockdown and always on and the less unique DNS), and just locally block my phone from sending data to the specific tracker URLs or domains or whatever that are listed under Discord in Aurora (and do I include the period at the end of these?). Would anyone be willing to give me a step-by-step, or at least point me in the direction of an actual instruction manual or something? All I can find on Rethink's website is an FAQ that doesn't actually tell me what functions are available without it messing up the Mullvad app.
If Rethink can't do this, the only other option I have been able to find is Aliucord. Does anyone have an opinion on that? Or a FOSS 3rd party client that respects privacy? Or... Anything?
Or is there a chatroom somewhere for RethinkDNS support? I can't find anything for that, either, just an email for suggestions and a place to lodge complaints, neither of which apply to me. I don't have a suggestion or a complaint, I'm just an idiot.
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GlytchMeister you need to go and get the details for logging in to a 3rd party wireguard service from Mullvad.
This should set you on the right path: https://mullvad.net/en/help/wireguard-android
Doesn't that approach mean having a non-mullvad DNS?
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GlytchMeister No. In Simple Proxy mode, you filter DNS requests locally before forwarding them to Proxy's DNS, which is Mullvad DNS in your case. You can confirm this by using https://www.dnsleaktest.com/ in Extended test. It should only show Mullvad DNS server.
GlytchMeister nope you can set the DNS source in the rethink app. I use proton via rethink with protons DNS. I just use rethink for the firewall.