Iodé widget iodé app - Results discrepancy

[mycenius]

Just for completeness as it’s vaguely related - I also posted this in another thread related to iodé app:

@mycenius

@Michelle

Googleapis connection is totally not needed for proper phone functioning. DivestOS for example hasn’t done it as can bee seen in Kuketz’s articles. I’d rather not use apps which would require Google’s API key.

On that note, what does update.googleapis.com do? Is this necessary for app updates via Aurora Store?

In iodé app this shows with the (blue) ‘Chromium’ icon curiously (even though Chromium isn’t installed on my device AFAIK) and is listed under the Android System WebView app, which itself sometimes isn’t obvious in the iodé app (see comment below on UI). e.g. I could only find it occasionally via the desktop applet, it’s one of numerous apps it occasionally displays as not having ‘Reinforced’ blocking even though it is reinforced when you look in the normal app.

Anyway I have all 3 of Wi-Fi, Mobile Data and VPN locked down for this app, yet still it’s reaching out to that url above regularly (every few hours)?