I see, thank you for explaining! Good to know that rooting your phone still has some benefits. I wouldn't have thought that there's such an easy bypass for system apps, but I suppose it makes sense for some modem/carrier apps to specify an interface.
I absolutely love Netguard even though I don't really use a firewall in practice (I was sort of hoping a permanent VPN with some "real" traffic meddling would be enough to block most violations of my privacy). It's the one rootless firewall that actually just works on practically any device you can think of, among a sea of broken/scammy firewalls that fail all kinds of edge cases.
> It's the one rootless firewall that actually just works on practically any device you can think of, among a sea of broken/scammy firewalls that fail all kinds of edge cases.
I absolutely love Netguard even though I don't really use a firewall in practice (I was sort of hoping a permanent VPN with some "real" traffic meddling would be enough to block most violations of my privacy). It's the one rootless firewall that actually just works on practically any device you can think of, among a sea of broken/scammy firewalls that fail all kinds of edge cases.