Hi All,
I’m new to E/OS and setting up a Fairphone 6. I was exited and many things worked out well. However, I have a few issues I cannot solve. I’m currently considering sending it back because my IT department went pretty stressed due to all the privacy measures of E/OS. The MS environment blocked me out due to suspicious activity like constantly changing IP addresses and popping up in weird places in a speed a person can’t travel.
How can I keep IP-addresses stable and normal for a group of apps and any other tips to make this work with IT departments?
this is the hide-my-ip feature in Advanced Privacy, the widget you see if you swipe to the left screen from home screen. There’s a switch to turn it off.
It uses the Tor network, and while it’s great as an asset for private endusers against censorship, corporate admins do not like it as Tor Exit-Nodes are also the source for network abuse.
Here’s the documentation to the feature:
- Advanced Privacy (overview)
- Advanced Privacy (hide-my-ip) → “Side Effects”
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@tcecyk, this is more or less the point were I came. However, I cannot find a way to make sure ’ for app a, b, c always use real ip address and real location’. I only found that feature w.r.t. trackers in the manual you linked to.
(I tried to post this sooner, but the system does not allow me to do so as I’m a beginner).
Hello,
I’ve a fairphone 6 eos also and in ‘parameters’, ‘advanced privacy’ : I 've 3 choices (on my phone only the trackers is activated, below I’ve ‘position’ (use the real position ) and below : real ip adress : use my real ip address (or something like that, my config is in french).
Rgds,
Rodrigue
ah sorry, understood. To selectively enable an AP feature per app was done for “fake location”, not yet for the Tor relaying.
There’s no feature request as to this yet in the Advanced Privacy gitlab tag, but I’m sure it came up before.
Upstream Orbot, the package inside AP that does the Tor relaying, has the selective-traffic-routing-per-app.
Click the arrow next to “REAL IP ADDRESS” and you should get to a page with all of the apps listed. Select check boxes for apps to use the feature, clear check boxes for apps to not use it. You can also specify a country where you want to exit the Tor network. That should give the location stability needed by your employer apps. That should fix your problem. Ideally, anything you log into with real ID should be left unchecked. It’s better to avoid this kind of thing as far as possible anyway. I just have browsers checked, even then the feature is off most of the time. I turn it on only to access sites which are blocked in my country. E OS, in combination with browser settings, has sufficiently strong tracker blocking to foil the evil Alphabet and Meta (and other) corporations. If state actors are after you then all bets are off.
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uh, I was heavily unaware, thanks @Vaughan … explains there being no feature request 
Thanks @tcecyk and @Vaughan . The solution @Vaughan came with worked good enough. Good enough because strangely it didn’t give me full flexibility (didn’t allow do check / uncheck all boxes).
The IP hiding needs to be on in order to check/uncheck boxes. If it was off when you tried it then try with it on. If it was on then I’ve no more ideas.
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