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baybal2 on Nov 15, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send...

Very simple way I know that not many people know:

Download a cert from offending Google servers, and blacklist it in Android.

The TLS library on the Android will then block it

foresto on Nov 15, 2020 [–]

This is a neat trick; thanks for pointing it out.

Just keep in mind that Google may have a sizable pool of certificates in use across their various servers, and they may rotate them on whatever schedule they like. Keeping up could become a chore.

baybal2 on Nov 15, 2020 | [–]

An option: block the root cert

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