celzero
Bulk app firewall actions
A user says,
Maybe it could be accompanied with an additional "apply settings" button. I clearly understand risks. NetGuard has a policy setting, which allow block all by default. Maybe it's possible it implement a button which only would allow blocking all, not unblocking
Users want to apply block/allow/bypass/exclude with one tap across multiple apps. We removed this ability in v053i because it affected other rules in ways users may find it confusing to reason about, but well, another warning dialog can't hurt? Surely not: https://twitter.com/apenwarr/status/1549200959980683269
It's disappointing to hear that a firewall app that touts privacy and security as its foremost feature remove the ability to bulk-block apps from accessing the Internet.
I just installed RethinkDNS on a fresh install, and is there really no other way but to sit here and scroll and tap like a mindless robot for an hour to block all apps from Internet access?
The only solution that I could find was to install 053h, with which it took me 30 seconds to revoke all apps' Internet access.
Please reconsider the decision to remove this vital and time-saving functionality!
Thank you.
Maybe a one-time 'Block all apps on system' button would suffice? It would be accompanied by a warning dialog with 'Cancel' and 'OK' options, of course.
Introduced bulk action (allow/block) in Apps screen where users can now allow or block apps for the filtered list of apps. https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app/pull/573/commits/6dddc2c44c75563b044f4ff3a76b9d447b0711c8
Released in v053k (downloadable from the website, playstore and f-droid perhaps complete their reviews by next week).
Someone even left a 1🌟 rating on the Play Store for us not impl this soon enough (: I hope they're happy now.