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?

    • 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