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How to use a Firewall and a VPN at the same time on Android without root, without external self-hosted servers (2025)

✅ You're reading the latest version of this guide. It's often considered impossible to use both a firewall and a VPN at the same time on android without root, mainly due to the fact that you can normally only connect to a single VPN at a time, and firewall apps require

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How to use a Firewall and a VPN at the same time on Android without root, without external self-hosted servers.

IMPORTANT: This guide is now outdated. Use this one instead: https://itsignacioportal.github.io/firewall-and-vpn-without-root-on-android-2025/ Unlike the previous version of this guide, this setup has: No DNS leaks.No UDP leaks.Less battery usage.Only open-source software.RequirementsAndroid 5.0+Anywhere between 446.03 MB, up to 2500MB of available

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How to setup Etesync for Tasks.org in Windows

In this blog I will explain how to set up etesync for local use (a server that will only be exposed to your trusted LAN). If you wish to setup etesync for it to be exposed to the internet, an advanced guide which uses nginx in WSL and internal port-forwarding