Always-on VPN details

[Nicolas_Sas]

In fact, for what I understand, it’s only use the VPN slot provided by android on your phone. And it’s use TOR/Orbot.

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Advanced Privacy uses Orbot with the end of life Tor 0.4.4.6 from November of 2020(!!!) and fragments of personalDNSfilter under the hood: e / os / PrivacyModuleTor · GitLab build.gradle · 41cb2aa68ade56333bbbd7096190b336c4d473bb · e / os / orbotservice · GitLab e / os / PrivacyModule TrackerFilter · GitLab It also uses the proprietary(!!!) Mapbox SDK 9.6.1 sadly: dependencies.gradle · main · e / os / Advanced Privacy · GitLab [core] consume mapbox-gl-native through a binary (#450) · mapbox…

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@rainwalker Advanced Privacy is not a VPN, it is Tor: Advanced Privacy - #23 by SkewedZeppelin This interactive diagram may be of help: SECURE CONNECTIONS | Tor Project | Tor Browser Manual

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@anon88181694 had right, the feature to hide the IP is not a vpn but uses TOR. Plaese tell me if i’m wrong but maybe the confusion of @loki came from the fact that advanced privacy (at least some feature of it) need to use the VPN slot generate by android like netguard, invizible pro or the “app tracking protection” from duckduckgo or other app like those [Screenshot_20220608-081929_Paramètres]

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@Nicolas_Sas Indeed, it is a local VPN to perform the routing to the Tor daemon.

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Hope it’s help anyway