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Add blocker service for PrivacyCentral

Amit Kumar requested to merge blocker-service-q into v1-q

Description

This MR is intended to add a blocker service to /e/OS which can be then used by apps such as PrivacyCentral to interact with the low-level components like iptables, bpf etc.

Issue(s)

https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/backlog/-/issues/3249 https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/backlog/-/issues/3251

Test environment

  1. Create a build with a feature branch name set to blocker-service-q.

  2. Download the latest apk artifact from the PrivacyCentral repo and follow the instructions about installation in README.

  3. Root your device using Magisk or any other root software.

Test procedures

  1. Open the PrivacyCentral App, go into trackers, try to toggle any tracker, for example, Facebook ads.

  2. Now try to open the facebook.com in the browser, it should not be accessibe.

  3. If you get the SELinux exception in logs, please make SELinux permissive with the command -> adb shell setenforce 0.

Technical details

Screenshots

Check list

  • Self review
  • Test procedure explained
  • Tested on fresh install
  • Tested applied as an update
  • License
  • Internal documentation
  • User documentation

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