A story of how I tried to free my smartphone from Google tracking by blocking their servers via hosts and iptables.
The problem with Google services#
A while ago I was gutting one of my Android smartphones (Philips Xenium W6610) and noticed that even with all Google services fully removed, Google does not let the smartphone go free — the phone kept a connection to several Google servers (Germany, the States) plus, as a bonus, 2 Chinese servers (their owners could not be identified).
Solving the problem#
I solved the problem by banning domains via /system/etc/hosts (pointing the
domains to 127.0.0.1) + banning requests by IP with iptables.
While banning, I noticed switching to backup servers.
List of blocked IP addresses#
- 172.217.23.174
- 216.58.205.238
- 172.217.21.238
- 54.230.230.126
- 128.199.105.193
List of blocked domains#
- server-54-230-230-126.waw50.r.cloudfront.net
- fra15s24-in-f14.1e100.net
- fra16s25-in-f14.1e100.net