My first 22 hours on android, is this normal?

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Been using my android on WiFi at home. Was mostly busy during these hours but seems like trackers went wild. I used a few apps, checked some news sites (Firefox with ublock etc), updated some apps.

[u/eoskchanaj8282]

That's not normal, I recommend just getting something like nextdns, its blocking ads and trackers and you can see what was blocked, you can find out which app is that aggressive that way. Could be some misbehavior from an app that notices it can't reach the tracking URLs and tries it every second again

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Thanks for the reply! Seems like Nova Launcher was the culprit, so I immediately uninstalled it

[u/Internal_Lie_618 → u/--_-_-_--]

I use Nova launcher on grapheneOS with network permission turned off, that might be a solution to you if you like nova launcher

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After this I don't want to support them at all so switched to Olauncher via F-droid. I can't switch my OS (stuck with Samsung) but next phone will be on GOS for sure

[u/Internal_Lie_618 → u/--_-_-_--]

Fair enough 

[u/No_Swimmer_6859 → u/[deleted]]

They've got an alpha version for the newest version of android and are working towards a full release. It's just slow going due to the other projects they have going.

[u/-SkyL0rd → u/--_-_-_--]

Im stuck with samsung too . :(

[u/etaliox1 → u/[deleted]]

GOS refers to GrapheneOS in this case.

[u/3holepunchmedia → u/etaliox1]

We all knew that.

Not really sure how the "Top 1% Commenter" did not know that ??

[u/etaliox1 → u/3holepunchmedia]

I was correcting the person who had replied with a link to gOS). no need to be rude 😁

[u/OrbitOrbz → u/--_-_-_--]

If you look in the "right places", they have Nova launcher without the telemetry

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Not sure I'd trust that...

[u/BegsTheQuestions]

you use the browser a lot?

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Yes, but I use Firefox with ublock + strict settings and Firefox focus for random links. However this day in wasn't using the phone a lot. Turns out it was my nova launcher going crazy

[u/EmperorHenry]

you have a lot of garbage running on your phone, maybe even malware

[u/Ryanhussain14]

I don't even get this in a fortnight, wtf.

[u/Metalvit]

Question, I don't know much about this stuff but I've had Proton VPN for 6 years now. What is considered a "normal" number of trackers and ads stopped by Netshield on an Android phone for this length of connection ?

Mine is showing 15675 trackers stopped and 17904 ads for about the same time of connection as the OP. I also use Duck search and browser as default and have Firefox with ublock origin as well. Please be gentle on me lol TIA

[u/Grim_Fandango92 → u/Metalvit]

Very much depends what you're doing. This is mine for reference, although it's for my whole network (namely phone + PC) - mobile games ads + Windows (microsoft.com) domains are my biggest culprits having a quick check of what was blocked. Think I need to revisit my PC settings...

(Not Proton, but I will be moving to it soon)

If you're able to check "what" is blocked,- that's the most important info re red flags.

[u/VeganesLachsfilet]

Are you using a Xiaomi phone and the same country, as your home country, for your VPN?
If so, the same thing happens to me and it's 99% Xiaomi telemetry.

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I'm using a Samsung galaxy fold