Slide: Force all connections to pass through Orbot

[Wilker-a]

hello \^-\^

it would be nice to have an option to make it so all connections are made through Tor using Orbot, something similar to how F-Droid offers an option for it. that would be nice :3

thank you for reading \^_\^

[Alexendoo]

Can I ask how this is different to having Slide enabled in Orbot?

[Wilker-a]

The settings enabled via Orbot only have effect whenever VPN mode is enabled, but that also affects the phone internet connections as a whole.

the suggestion is also because every so often i clean up the app data from Orbot whenever it gives connection problems where i have a hard time pinpointing the problem, which ends up deleting the settings for the enabled apps. doing the settings all the time is time consuming (i should probably open an issue for importing settings there), and i am often unsure if even the disabled ones still goes through Tor, so i thought "better safe than sorry" and decided to post it here \^\^'

[Alexendoo]

Ahh I see, so Orbot sets up a proxy by default, apps can choose to use that or be configured to if they support specifying a proxy. The F-Droid switch is essentially a quicker way to fill in the proxy settings

VPN mode is an alternative which forces any old app through it using Android's VPN feature, not requiring setting up a proxy

For now definitely open an issue with Orbot about the connection problems, since they'd want to know about any issues also

On Slide's end, if we ever get support for specifying a Proxy (#2904) adding such a switch would be a good idea

[absolutez3]

I would love this myself!

[jpds]

https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader has an option for this