How do I block trackers?? DNS Block sucks. Rethink same.

mmobder

Skibidikatt listen, it's due to dumb people who's ego is so big, they don't have a room in their head for a hesitation, there are rumours something is bad.

Literally, majority of your domains are banned by basic public blocklists, cheese, api.mixpanel.com...

Its so dumb I feel there is a chance for a troll.

Skibidikatt

mmobder no im not trying too just these adblocks and stuff are confusing me im mad at google for trying to play games on my phone and putting up ads up everything for profits sake and not for my enjoyment.

deplored

Skibidikatt
Why are you struggling so much then? It's a simple easy goal. Even with Brave browser only I never saw any ads. But I also use that with VPN with built-in filtering. Mostly just to compliment the fingerprint protection of Brave. Especially with Google. As others mentioned they will still track you even with ad blocking. You also need to use forgetful browsing feature of Brave so cookies are regularly cleared. Or you can set up whatever browser you use to clear cookies when you close it.

Skibidikatt

deplored because i cant find them. What vpn ru talking bout. And i mean on my phone i use vanadium for naw

KCne

gk7ncklxlts99w1 If you're intelligent enough to identify the problems with these tools, then please put your mind to creating better tools that do work.

Madaidan did some meaningful work with Whonix, increasing security for anti-fingerprinting measures and hardening Linux. @akc3n is part of PrivSec and does meaningful work for GrapheneOS.

gk7ncklxlts99w1 It reminds me of the pushback against VPNs

People are working on solutions that try to solve the trust problems of VPNs, like with Nym and Obscura

gk7ncklxlts99w1

KCne That's good to hear. I'm sure they're good devs, but not good communicators, that's my estimation. That's a common problem with programmers.

Nym and Obscura seem to be doing what Safing/Portmaster are doing. Portmaster unfortunately has become difficult to use as of late, at least on Linux, so I haven't been using it.

Skibidikatt

Croissant i have good grades

Skibidikatt

TCP BETWORK IS UNREACHABLE I GOT WIFI BUT NOTHING WORKS

neotux

Skibidikatt Rethink suxs

It sockss not. Works fine for me. And for many others, it seems.

Must be something on your end. Just sayin'

Skibidikatt

neotux gaslighting

neotux

Skibidikatt

neotux Must be something on your end. Just sayin'

Skibidikatt neotux gaslighting

Oh yeah?

The app is apparently working for other users.
The app is not working for you.
Would you arrive at another conclusion that there must be something not working on your end?
What and how?
If you still think it is something wrong with the app and it "suxs", please report it to its developer.

GrouchyGrape

Skibidikatt get out of here with that attitude. No one is gas lighting you. I don't know if English is your native language or not, but half of what you're saying doesn't make any sense or is so difficult to understand that no one can help you effectively.

Ask questions clearly, be mature, and many on here would be glad to volunteer their time to help you.

Novalissoide

Skibidikatt The latest version of RethinkDNS, again: v0.5.5u, suxs way less. Better logging, and more stability in operation.

Skibidikatt

neotux developer aint doing allat.
If wifi cuts for 1 sec conenctions go red and everything dies

Skibidikatt

Novalissoide im on latest

ignoramous

rdns dev here

gk7ncklxlts99w1 The only way in which Rethink "sucks" for me, is that I need to restart every time I make a rule change (like trusting a domain or changing a universal rule), and I need to restart sometimes even without making changes, like if I haven't used my phone in a while. I'm restarting a lot.

Feel you.

We have made quite significant changes around how we apply firewall rules & deal with network drops since v055o, and the current version (as another user points out), v055u is even better and shouldn't need "restarts" anymore.

Novalissoide

ignoramous
Indeed.
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gk7ncklxlts99w1

ignoramous

Nice, looks like I was using an older version (0.5.5t, 0.5.5u is not on f-droid yet). Updated to the latest and I'll see how it goes.

Prkfsz

I may get crap for this, sinceI'm not a pro in these matters, but will post anyway:
If you want a simple tracker controll, use - TrackerControll app. From F-droid. Reasonably simple to use and you can see all the trackers that TC detects in every app. Sometimes things break and app won't run, then you go to TC settings and can regulate (allow) every individual tracker untill the app works.

Novalissoide

Prkfsz No one should get crap for participating.

Novalissoide

gk7ncklxlts99w1 good luck! RethinkDNS was a hefty learning curve for me. Three things above all got me into the excited, more enthusiated phase;

The recent update 0.5.5.u. This solved the uninstalled apps log remnants issue.
Having some mileage with the app got me realising how vast the scope of it actually is and that it performs, not only the things I expected out of my previous use of 'adblockers' and anti-'tracking'-apps, but beyond this baseline, RethinkDNS does this without even the slightest bit of 'You are already safer than most normies after flipping our switch, but if you step into adb, root, Shizuku, we will 'protect your privacy' even better. Here's how you should go ahead and gain root'
And the final thing that totally triggered a quantum leap for my understanding of this app, as obscured that it may come across from the plurality of real world disciplines that it takes on and does it good; was a serious response to things in the app I found confusing. In little more than a day, devs provided a good answer and, since this is about arguably complex goals and solutions hard to implement in easily used software for every user, - a nice discussion immediately was started about it.

gk7ncklxlts99w1

@ignoramous P.S, I took a look at portmaster's android app and it appears it's no longer in active development or at least stalled. I recently heard about Nym and Obscura which appear to do similar things. I'm curious if you've looked into partnering with any of these companies to incorporate their unique VPNs into Rethink. A few years ago I made this recommendation with Portmaster though nothing came of it. Although competition is good, I just don't see a need for another Android VPN, which is why I'm not unhappy that development has stalled. I also would like to continue using their SPN but the portmaster desktop app is annoying to use nowadays.

ignoramous

gk7ncklxlts99w1 I recently heard about Nym and Obscura which appear to do similar things. I'm curious if you've looked into partnering with any of these companies to incorporate their unique VPNs into Rethink

Obscura supports exporting WireGuard configuration, and so, importing that into Rethink should make it work? Their FAQ notes that their server-side multi-hop applies to exported configurations.

As for Nym, I'm unsure if they support vanilla WireGuard, but if they did, Rethink should be able to connect to their servers just fine.

Besides, Rethink has multi-hop capabilities built-in into the client. You can import, say, Windscribe (£3/mo on BYOP) + Mullvad (£5/mo) and hop Mullvad over Windscribe or vice versa for £8/mo (the same rate as Obscura).

In the upcoming version, v055v, Rethink will integrate with Windscribe for auto-imports of their WireGuard (for a nominal fee) and in a version or two after, we plan to turn on our relays (which are a bit expensive, so we are holding off on these for v1 even though the code is ready).

gk7ncklxlts99w1 A few years ago I made this recommendation with Portmaster though nothing came of it

tbf, when our project was incurring high costs (£15000+ bills) someone from Safing did reach out to me.

chinook

ignoramous hey, do you happen to receive generally positive noise regarding using rethinkdns with wg proxy?

Because it used to work and it's not working for me for the longest time[1] (I'm running 0.5.5t), and looking at the various issues around it's not just 'me' problem :)

I'm just asking if you perhaps noticed "yep, u fixed the wireguard for me!" messages flying around :)

[1] I am NOT asking you to drop everything and investigate; basically wg-tunnel with the exact same configuration connects and it's usable. RethinkDNS connects and everything is just blocked, nothing goes out to the tunnel, nothing connects. I started from the basic/empty configuration. Yes, I plan on redoing it from scratch but it's very time consuming.

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