Whitelist Firewall

[trashcan]

Is there a possibility to use the iode blocker as Whitelist firewall?
Im tired of blocking every host i dont want individually.
At least a regex function would be great.

[AlphaElwedritsch]

maybe somedays in the future, but not now

[Barry]

@trashcan

Is there a possibility to use the iode blocker as Whitelist firewall?

I had already been interested in that, too. I very much hope that this is still to come. To be able to make a strict whitelist principle, it would be good if you could also select each system app individually and there would be a “notify on internet access” option. See also the following two posts:

Questions and feature requests about the iodé blocker

See @Kiwih answer. Apps appear in the list when they effectively communicate through the network, in the concerned period of time (day, 7 last days, since installation). If you are sure that an app has communicated through the network but it does not appear in the list, that’s a bug. Some system apps already appear (e.g. intent verification filter plus all preinstalled apps), but many do not appear indeed. They are filtered through the “Standard” black list though. We don’t want to flood th…

Questions and feature requests about the iodé blocker

That sounds good! I will follow this up accordingly. I can understand that the app list should not become confusing. However, in order to be able to control the system apps individually, I still think it is necessary to list them all separately. This could be solved by displaying the system apps in a separate list. You either look at the list with the clearly arranged user apps or the list with the system apps. You could perhaps use a switch to toggle between user apps and system apps. Maybe …

[ForFair]

@trashcan

Is there a possibility to use the iode blocker as Whitelist firewall?
Im tired of blocking every host i dont want individually.
At least a regex function would be great.

How can I block all connections for a specific app and allow (whitelist) only certain connections/domains?

Is that possible with REGEX?
I tried to blacklist * or *.* for a specific app, however the app still accesses everything as before.

I want to achieve that apps and their build-in trackers are prevented from sending information from the very first start.
With the blacklist approach of the iodé blocker I can only block a connection once it has been initiated for the first time. And after that I need to check again and again in case the app has initiated a new connection in the meantime, all the while leaking information somewhere.
That’s not very privacy focused.

[ForFair]

@ForFair

Is that possible with REGEX?
I tried to blacklist * or *.* for a specific app, however the app still accesses everything as before.

The solution is to use “Rule with wildcard” to block all connections with *. Then it is possible to whitelist only specific domains.
I had mistakenly used “Regular expression”.