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[–] merde 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

☞ "The development of TrackerControl was led by Konrad Kollnig (University of Oxford). The underlying network analysis functionality is provided by the NetGuard Firewall, developed by Marcel Bokhorst."

if you tried both, you would see that they are basically the same app.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Except TC includes a domain blocking list, so the filtering isn't just per app, but specific connections for that app (so you can block the ad trackers but allow the main server location for the app).

[–] merde 2 points 1 month ago

you can do the same with netGuard 👍

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm gonna try it, ty