After the discussion in the following post I dug a bit deeper the rabbit hole.
While I mostly relied on Exodus to see if an app has trackers in it… I was baffle to see all the sketchy requests it made while dumping the DNS requests with PCAPdroid…
Over 200 shady requests in a few seconds after login… here’s a preview:
While I don’t use AdguardVPN, I have Adguard Home as my DNS server in my homelab… I think It’s time to switch to pi-hole !
Edit: VPN pcapdroid
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I’m not sure how I could get inaccurate data. I have a rooted android and de-bloated to a maximum. PCAPdroid only works without a VPN connection… And those requests appear when I open the AdguardVPN app.
Other apps like Firefox doesn’t send that much DNS requests just the usual
ingest.sentry.io
.Edit: I have added other screenshots