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Now if only they would finally Sherlock Little Snitch for iOS; the amount of spyware embedded in almost every single app in the App Store is astounding. I make a point of knowing about this stuff and even I was flabbergasted the first few times I ran my iPhone via a proxy.

Apple claims that you consented you this when you agreed to the App Store TOS.

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There are so-so approximations of it, like the guardian vpn/firewall: https://guardianapp.com/

Unfortunately the approximations are not that great, requiring you to route all your network traffic through an unknown company.

There's also https://lockdownhq.com/ which should work on device. There really should be something like Screen Time directly integrated in the OS.

I'm sure there are open-source versions you can self-host

Can you share how you did this? I would like to try it.

Charles Proxy on App Store.

For a free alternative I’ve got a blog post[0] detailing how to do it with the excellent mitmproxy utility. There’s also Burpsuite community edition which is pretty decent

0: https://hugotunius.se/2019/01/23/going-spelunking-with-mitmp...

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