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Tried the squid https proxy rabbit hole, but could not get it to work with mobile devices.

You'll need to generate your own CA and root certs to install if you're setting up a MITM proxy.

I did create a self signed root cert, it works as expected when accessing net from my Mac. But mobile devices refuse to work, zero network requests succeed. I did trust the root cert on both mac and mobile. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Certificate pinning perhaps?

Righto, looks like impossible to fix then.

On newer versions of android it can be hard to install a root cert and trust it; mitmproxy and httptoolkit both have some great guides though. On iOS its easier - but yeah unfortunately/fortunately certificate pinned applications wont work

Depending on how much time you are willing to put in you could create a list of apps that dont PIN and selectively MiTM apps that dont

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