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Nope. It runs solely on the device. How else would it know which app is making the network request? What are you basing your strange claims on?

> Netguard also injects ads in your traffic (or at least did) https://imgur.com/a/2YG7Q

Netguard is open source (with a license not supported on iOS: https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard), so there is no reason to use a build that shows ads. Alternatively, as I said earlier, there are multiple firewall apps you could use that don't require root.



From their own FAQ:

> NetGuard will do its best, but it is limited by the fact it must use the VPN service.

FAQ: https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/blob/master/FAQ.md

See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/4uhl3w/netguard_ad...


VPNService is an API (https://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/VpnServi...). Your own link points tp this documentation. It does not require sending your data to a VPN, and in this case, it obviously doesn't.

The weird thing is that you went out of your way to research to find a misleading quote when the page itself points out why the quote is misleading and that the app is open source (negating your ads claim earlier).


It has to route traffic through a local VPN to drop the traffic. Doesn't play well with other VPNs for this reason. Real firewalls need root. The VPN trick is a hack to get around that while still providing some of that functionality. Yes, you could edit the source code and compile it yourself every time it updates to remove the ads, but I think that's a little much to expect.

Ultimately this is functionality users should have access to by default without needing to resort to hacks and ad-filled workarounds.


> Real firewalls need root.

Real computers let you install trusted stuff that has root.


> Doesn't play well with other VPNs for this reason. Real firewalls need root.

"Real firewalls" also don't play well with other VPNs. I don't see what functionality you think you're missing here.

> Yes, you could edit the source code and compile it yourself every time it updates to remove the ads, but I think that's a little much to expect.

Nobody's suggesting that. Just install another build (like the one I posted on F-droid) or any number of other apps that do the same thing.

> Ultimately this is functionality users should have access to by default

No OS comes with this functionality by default, only the APIs to implement it, exactly like Android.




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