Blokada: I want per App Connection & Ad Controls + Firewall Features

[English106]

Firewall Features - Block/Allow IP Addresses & Wildcard Hosts

Hostfiles are great but will not always suffice and IP blocks may be needed if apps and operating systems are making requests by IP. Also, some advertising platforms use automatically generated subdomains which would be impossible to block with IP addresses or normal hostfile blocking

• Individual IP
• CIDR IP Blocks
• IP Ranges
• Block *.1e100.net

Blocking wildcard hosts is going to be harder to implement and won't make use of regularly updated hostfiles. It will most likely need to be a check against the app-vpn as a firewall feature

Per App Connection Controls - Block/Conditional/Allow Connection Types

Some things shouldn't connect, some things should only connect on specific network types and some things should only work when they are on your screen and you're holding the phone

• Wifi
  
  
  
  1. Block
  
  
  2. Allow only in foreground
  
  
  3. Allow
  
  
• Data
  
  
  
  1. Block
  
  
  2. Allow only in foreground
  
  
  3. Allow
  
  

Per App Ad Controls - Bypass Hostfile/IP/Wildcard Domain Blocking by Connection Type

Some advertisements should be allowed to get through on unmetered networks or even if you have an unlimited dataplan, this feature can help strike a balance between revenue generation and user control, given some apps run adds in the background

• Wifi
  
  
  
  1. Block ads
  
  
  2. Allow ads only in foreground
  
  
  3. Allow ads
  
  
• Data
  
  
  
  1. Block ads
  
  
  2. Allow ads only in foreground
  
  
  3. Allow ads
  
  

[English106]

Bueller?

[Attivik]

This is somewhat what has been already asked here (at least for the first part): https://github.com/blokadaorg/blokada/issues/49

[PrintableCharacter]

@rajanski you could as well just upvote the request using the thumbs up emoji.
Messages such as "+1" just spam the thread unnecessarily. :)

[Ansem93]

I would love this feature too!
Since Netguard work the same way as blokada, shouldn't be possible to use their code to add this feature to blokada?

[TGWGitHub]

For starters, even a simple-function firewall will do, block or allow an app from accessimg the internet, without much extra features.

[subhasishlak123]

Just do it😮

[erison15]

Just do it, please <3