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...This means you can block internet access for specific apps to save bandwidth, extend battery life, or prevent unwanted background connections while still letting other apps communicate normally. NetGuard’s interface is simple, with toggles to allow or deny access and optional settings for screen-on behavior, roaming, system apps, and notification of internet usage, giving users fine-grained control over network behavior.

TrackerControl is a free, open-source Android privacy application designed to monitor and restrict hidden data collection by installed apps. It uses Android's local VPN functionality to analyze network connections without requiring root access. The application identifies tracking services and displays the companies and countries associated with outgoing traffic. Users can selectively block trackers, advertising domains, and unwanted network connections.

This is extremely handy for Android Phones, as now most third-party Apps from mobile market is now close-sourced and it's hard to promise its security, but some of this functions may be tempting, so we have to install it and give it permissions what it want at installation stage, and then it may do something we don't like in the background, now with Lavender we can at least prevent from accessing network if we don't trust it.