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(Android) Sandboxed Apps with own VPN and Firewall? [solved] (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by turkelton@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Hi lemmy,

Iwant to use specific apps as privately as possible.

I'm aware of shelter and the work profile, and I was thinking of using Duolingo or Instagram with fake accounts through a VPN with a killswitch so that it can't associate my data and usage with me.

Is that in any way possible? Or am I missing something?

I'm running Graphene OS on a Pixel 8 Pro

EDIT: Solved, you can do that with user profiles in Graphene

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[–] random65837@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Android natively sandboxes, so that's already done. When you're already running Graphene there's no reason to further move them to other users, or profiles.

The obvious issue is you're still pushing data to data miners regardless, whether it's in your name or not, it's just as valuable to them.