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

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    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.

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      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.