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What hosts can be blocked on a Samsung phone with a hosts file (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm on a rooted Samsung smartphone, running One UI 7.0 and Android 15. Not quite ready to switch to Graphene OS yet. Also, my threat model doesn't require it. Yet. 🤣

In addition to having debloated with UAD-NG and using HaGeZi's Ultimate DNS Blocklist in AdAway, I have also blocked:

android.clients.google.com  
deviceintegritytokens-pa.googleapis.com  
es11.samsungsm-ds.com  
mtalk.google.com  
pinning-02.secb2b.com  
play-lh.googleusercontent.com  
playstoregatewayadapter-pa.googleapis.com  
prod-lt-playstoregatewayadapter-pa.googleapis.com  
shop.line-scdn.net

I haven't noticed any unexpected behaviors yet. I also tried blocking:

i.ytimg.com  
play.googleapis.com  
digitalassetlinks.googleapis.com  
android.googleapis.com

But the first one is needed to load thumbnails on NewPipe and the latter three are needed to login to the Play Store whenever you want to update whatever you have installed through the Play Store - two apps in my case. I have logged out of my Google account and blocked the Play Store with a firewall and only unblock it once a month or so to update Play services and such.

Just wanted to share what can be blocked with a hosts file on a Samsung smartphone. 😊

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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

remove play store and all google related stuff except the essentials with UAD-NG, and use aurora store instead.

install afwall and only enable network access for necessary apps.

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Already tried that but as it says on UAD-NG removing Google Play services may cause bootloops, which happened to me. Also, when I tried Aurora Store a few years back, I wasn't able to authenticate a paid app that I use.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i see.

btw, there's an app called Blocker on f-droid you can use to disable/enable apps (using root or shizuku). maybe use it to have google play disabled and only enable it when you need to update your app :)

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

I use Shizuku and Canta to disable or delete. Fucking awesome.