• ★ Puffer: Privacy Protection & Ad-Blocking
• ★ 2021-05-12
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About Puffer: Privacy Protection & Ad-Blocking

Puffer protects you from the harmful trackers and malware layered throughout the Android device ecosystem with just 1 click.

Puffer acts as a local VPN service for your device, but it does not route your traffic to a 3rd party. Instead, the other end of the VPN connection is on your device. From there, Puffer monitors outbound connections versus known lists of not good guys and prevent connections to services trying to track you.

Technical Description: Puffer is a packet-level filter for Android device that uses the VPN interface to read raw packets. By registering as a VPN, Puffer can obtain Android device to forward raw IP packets to the app instead of the network. Puffer then emulates a network card and performs complementary Linux socket operations but keeps track of TLS packets. Puffer reads the initial ClientHello packet of every TLS connection and extracts the SNI (Server Name Indication) headers, which it uses to classify and selectively block streams. By this mechanism, Puffer can block streams without needing to decrypt the stream contents.

Features:

- Unlike a standard VPN service, your data does not leave your device, so you don't need to put your trust in a compromisable third-party server!
- Puffer is more effective than PiHole, NextDNS and other DNS based solutions because Puffer will still work if the app uses a non-standard DNS resolver.
- We hold track of how a lot of trackers we block, so you can see just how invasive your favourite www services are.
- You can use the provided "Live View" UI to see the connections that your device is making to the world, including the hostname and IP address, in real-time.

Privacy:
- None of the data Puffer handles will ever be stored or sent to Puffer servers, this is an entirely client-side solution.
- Puffer does not decrypt encrypted traffic, such as HTTPS, it only looks at traffic meta-data and patterns to spot not good requests.

Notes:
- If you would like Puffer to be always-on and restart with your phone you can enable this setting in your device's settings. Travel to the "VPN" space of the phone settings (On Samsung devices this is under "More connection settings") then click the settings option next to "Puffer" and toggle on "Always-on VPN". It is best to leave "Block connections without VPN" disabled.
- If you are having problem with any app of the website, please reach out to me at the listed developer contact. As long as I can view the www service or app from my own device, I will test and solve the problem for you.

Coming Soon:
- Custom blocklists.
- Bandwidth Meter (See which of your device connections is consuming the most bandwidth).

New Features: Improve stability for the connect / disconnect logic.

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