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“The report detailed how the user managed to leak DNS queries when disabling and enabling VPN while having “Block connections without VPN” on.”
Not to diminish the severity of the issue but I can’t imagine this being the factor that pushes the average person to ios over android.
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Mullvad is awesome. i think this is the second android bug/incident they brought to light?
Anyway, really really hope this gets fixed upstream, maybe by Graphene
How much you wanna bet this was intentional by Google? 😏
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If you do this, you’ll be using the DNS you assign instead of using the VPN’s DNS, as intended. That will make you stand out from the rest of the same VPN users, effectively affecting privacy.
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mine gives me three choices. Off, Automatic, and Private DNS (type in your own). should i set mine to off then? will that prevent the leak?
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so automatic will allow the leak?
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What I don’t understand though, doesn’t using mullvad automatically set their own DNS?
Only if your Android connection is set to automatic DNS. Additionally, they are assuming it is an OS bug. However, they also acknowledge that they had to fix something on their app to mitigate. I tried myself with Wireguard instead, killed the network access to it, and nothing ever left my phone, as Android immediately killed all connections due to the VPN always on feature.
So, I’m going to take their claim with a grain of salt until AOSP says something about this and denies or confirms the alleged bug.
On the desktop it does. But on Android things are maybe different ? Not directly related but I remember (long time ago) wanting to tether from an Android phone with Mullvad VPN app in use, to a computer, only to find out that the Android defaults (In Android not in the Mullvad app) needed a button swiped to make it work correctly on the other device.
I thought sharing the VPN was blocked and not possible. Do you remember how you did?
Ive recently managed to do this;
Settings> Network & Internet> Hotspot & Tethering> Allow Clients To Use VPN
Not in pixel :( I would love this
Just use rethink dns with a wireguard tunnel and block every app except those you trust and need !
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Imagine using Android at this point
Imagine making idiotic statements at this point.
Imagine being rude for no reason
You and I don’t have to imagine that, dummy. We’ve already done it.
Well idk about you but I did it many times unfortunately. Imagine accusing people in what you’ve done yourself I guess. Very pathetic indeed
I’m not accusing you. I’m stating a fact that I included myself in… You are indeed a dim bulb in the pack.
Bruh I meant myself. I accused others in what I do myself. I didn’t accuse you
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I honesty don’t understand the rudeness. What I said is unpopular as 8K monitors and I do think it can be downvoted but why being rude? I just don’t want to participate in toxicity because then I become toxic too. Ignorance is the best in this case. And I use LineageOS that’s based on Android btw
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Well yea that didn’t really make sense. I guess that’s what being autistic is. Anyways upvoted and thank you for not being toxic
Well, yes, I prefer desktop. But you know, in some countries some people have nothing else than phones. I am glad that Mullvad has posted this and hopefully Google can fix the bugs soon.
Are they interested in fixing it though?
Upvoted.
Huh why don’t you just downvote everything I say like everyone else does?
Well, I didn’t see the other comments till now, and wrote Upvoted as an alternative to Insightful which I was intending it to sound. I appreciated your comment because I think Google likely have their own priorities.
Well yea I understand. I just didn’t know what else to say. I didn’t want to just upvote and not reply because I don’t want to ignore nice (no I’m not saying that upvoting me makes you nice) people in this toxic and hopeless world. In the contrary I want to promote them. Though nobody (probably even myself) will believe in it after everything I’ve done and said here for various reasons. I guess it’s an imagine being sus moment
All fine. Your comment where you mentioned autistic suddenly made me “understand” the let-s-call-them misunderstandings in this thread. And I agree about the toxic world, but we’re all in the same boat, so I’d say we may as well be nice to each other at least a few seconds per day. Sometimes small things can make a big difference.
LineageOS with Jerboa over Mullvad VPN here. Not many options on mobile devices.
And Android runs a shit load of portable devices beyond phones.
Most handheld store scanners are Android based today. Inventory management devices (like warehouses have used since the nineties) used to be Palm-based, are largely Android now, because it’s core is Linux. They don’t have to run the standard Android shell, they can run their own.
I’ve used medical monitors that are Android based.
Yea unfortunately. Hopefully the enshittification of new versions will speed up the development of alternatives
EDIT: imagine raiding (now seriously)
Privacy is when you fully isolate yourself from the world.
