Yes you can monitor which app eats what, and probably circumvent this with a vpn layer, but sometimes I just wish I would be able to pause an app’s access to the net
Yes you can monitor which app eats what, and probably circumvent this with a vpn layer, but sometimes I just wish I would be able to pause an app’s access to the net
I remember some particular apps not liking that one. Basically it exposes the permission that’s otherwise always granted, and if the developers didn’t make a catch all for network errors, the app crashes. Mobile data usage → allow network access favors better in that regard.
If the apps don’t work without network access and they don’t have an obvious need for network access, then I don’t want them on my phone. If that’s the case, then either app is poorly made or it is being used to spy on people with unnecessary telemetry.
In my case it was soundcore’s app (no, openscq30 didn’t work), so it had a need for network access to update the firmware, for example, I just didn’t want to give it at the moment. As for being poorly made, also not exactly: as I’ve mentioned, android gives this permission by default, and it’s reasonable to assume it stays so. Graphene basically “breaks userspace” here.
Not only this, but AFAIK grapheneos allowing you to block this permission is one of the main reasons why google refuses to “certify” the os for some things (like GPay).