I noticed /e/ still connects to connectivitycheck.gstatic.com and google.com when connecting to WIFI.
I think this is in order to quickly connect to captive portals.
There has been a discussion within LineageOS and they said they’re not anti-google so they’ll keep this check on google servers. They mentionned that they don’t have the infrastructure to face the connection of all LineageOS smartphones if they replaced the URL by one they own and I understand this.
In the other hand I’m sure google keeps track of the connections to these servers.
In the case of /e/ which aims at keeping our data to ourself and get rid of google, don’t you think it would be a good idea to change the URL? Or maybe to disable this by default?
If you setup a VPN connection for your device, you can instruct /e/ to use an alternative DNS-server in the server-VPN-configuration-file with the command push "dhcp-option DNS IP-address".
that’s indeed a very useful advice. user friendly support for wireguard should be therefore a nearly indispensable feature of /e/.
without VPN you shouldn’t make use of public WLANs etc., because google isn’t the only data hungry enemy out there (e.g the national postal service here in austria is known for selling data sets about the predicted political affinities of their customers even if you only correspond by good old snail mail – see: https://wien.orf.at/news/stories/2957293/).
From my point of view it’s not about changing the configured DNS server but the URL Android uses to check the connectivity once connected to a Wifi, regardless of the DNS used.
I agree, that the DNS issue is offtopic with regard to the problem that you described in the opening post of this thread, but I hope that you are fine with me trying to answer the questions that came up in the discussion.
Open in a browser: https://ipleak.net.This will not only show you which DNS you are using but also a wealth of other information concerning your connection and browser.
I have to correct myself. I have been playing around with the WireGuard app from the store again and now it’s been working fine.
Not sure what was the problem first, maybe I misconfigured something, but WireGuard is actually working ok, just tested it.
However if WireGuard VPN is on, wifi over Hotspot is not working. Also I’m not sure how WireGuard works together with e.g. Blokada or NetGuard (they are using kind of VPN too).
I had tried to change my phone DNS (currently without /e/. tho plan to), I tried to put OpenDNS adress into the static ip box but it refused to take. Then came across adguardDNS (which i remember reading here) of which i input into my static ip DNS and it worked!.The Adguard DNS is open source and claim to block complicated ad tracking techniques. Their web page is https://adguard.com/en/adguard-dns/overview.html I think it maybe good one to adopt. tho would be good to see what folks think from reading their webpage.
OK I have /e/ installed just today!, seems to change the DNS is different in /e/ OS i found it in settings>>wireless & networks heading then beneath data usage click>>more, then Disable network DNS & then you can set a DNS address (tho theres only space for one DNS adress).
