I was not aware of this until today. People use work profiles on Android to isolate their more privacy invasive apps. If you want those apps to be tunnelled through a VPN, you would have to install the VPN application you use on your work profile separately and turn it on separately in your work profile.

    • black_mouflon@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Ok thanks. I’ve been using CalyxOS for a while and l’m not caught up with “regular” Android. But if this features are so usefull why aren’t they merged to the AOSP (Android open source project)

      • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        11 months ago

        But if this features are so usefull why aren’t they merged to the AOSP

        Me every time I realize the ability to completely block network usage for an app is not Stock Android

        • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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          11 months ago

          It’s moments like these that make me realize oh Android is built primarily as a advertisement tool

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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        11 months ago

        The VPN sharing choice is at least logical. You have to make a decision when designing a system how your energy the network stack. And if you say every profile and every user gets equal access to the network stack. Then you get this result.

        But the feature of sharing VPN access is also useful. So it really just depends on what choice you made earlier. I don’t think this is necessarily evil.