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

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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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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I use NetGuard for this.

https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard

[-] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

I tried it for a while, but I also use a VPN and you can't set both

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