I confirm that you can use both oh them. I activated Advanced Privacy without “Hide my IP” and I use ProtonVPN aside and it works.
However I’ve a question about Advanced Privacy. My dashboard displays for most apps installed 0 trackers blocked and 0 leaks. But I’m pretty sure that I use some apps with trackers as “Sncf connect”, Feedly or Firefox. Do you have explanation ?
Hi,
yesterday advanced settings seems to work correctly but since this morning the hide of IP is still trying to be enabled (see picture). I tried with & without 4G, WiFi or not, and battery saver enabled or not, all without success.
Related to this (I guess) is the internet access (the banking app or browser) is very very very slow!.
Any idea ?
Tomorrow I have deactivated VPN for a moment, then later enabled again (random IP set in options).
No new connection to the VPN can be set up now. It does not work even after hours.
Even a reboot had no effect.
…so also problems with it (the same problem Arnaud has, I think).
Is it a bug or does it result from overload?
Confirmation: You can have Netguard running together with turned on Advanced Privacy. But not together with “IP hiding”. You can have only one VPN active at the same time.
That will likely require a lot more (and also conceptually different) work.
As I see it, Advanced Privacy currently uses Androids built in “mock location” feature that only works system wide.
Previously hidden in the developer options and requiring installation of a app to provide a fake location, this feature is now easily accessible .
To get this working on a per app basis probably requires a lot more development deeper in the core of android than it took to get to this state.
Is anyone else having trouble turning Advanced Privacy back off, after turning it on out of curiosity? I slide the slider back off, close Settings, reopen and return, the slider’s back on again.
With 2 profiles you can now use Advanced Privacy on one and TC/Blockada on the other, that actually works out good. With the vpn you have to turn on the Advanced Privacy location spoof and turn off your normal vpn (turn off always on and turn off block connection w/o vpn) and reboot your phone. Your phone should then automatically connect to the Advanced Privacy vpn.
Is anyone else having trouble turning Advanced Privacy back off, after turning it on out of curiosity? I slide the slider back off, close Settings, reopen and return, the slider’s back on again.
Yes, I had it too.
Also I deactivated VPN in the control panel.
And then (after turning on again) the program could not connect.
Thank you! I’d worked that one out, but then had to separately deactivate the location hiding (or OsmAnd thought I was Somewhere Else). It just seems odd that the slider is not easily reversed, and no warning is given.
Great analysis by all of you guys who is able to understand all those settings and possiblities.
From my non-tech side, could anyone confirm what I think I understood from this post. It might interest more than me (hopefully). If I let my VPN active, and all features from Advanced Privacy enabled, both running (the question is not how useful it is ) then :
The trackers will still being blocked from Advanced Privacy ;
The location will be the one displayed from my VPN (which is not mine anyway) ;
IP address will be the one displayed from my VPN (which is not mine anyway).
Am I correct by saying that like this or missed I something ?
The trackers will still be blocked. Your ip address seems to default to the 3rd party vpn (like Nord or Proton). If by location, you mean GPS for Maps and stuff, that will be accurate to your actual location, if your location is turned on. A vpn has no affect on GPS location.
You’re right and apologise for that. I missed up location and IP address, as you can choose from which country on my VPN (ProtonVPN) my internet address / IP address is supposed to come.
So, location within Advanced Privacy is the GPS location and it is for Apps that are interested to access your location and forward it “home” ?
Then, if I’m not mistaken and to summarize, if all features from Advanced Privacy are enabled and the VPN is on with rerouting from another country (IP-wise) :
The location will be the one from Advanced privacy, as you said ;
The IP address will be the one from the VPN.
Of course, supposedly if you’re GPS is on, on the device. If switched to off, no affect right ?