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NetGuard is an open-source Android firewall app that lets users control internet access on a per-app basis without requiring root access, making it a straightforward and flexible way to improve privacy and data usage management on mobile devices. By creating a local VPN service on the device, NetGuard intercepts and selectively blocks or allows network traffic for individual applications and addresses, supporting both Wi-Fi and mobile connections according to user preferences. 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. ...

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.