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youngmanykon I captured 72 hours of idle Android packets behind pfSense

please share your thoughts if i should have done things differently

youngmanykon I captured 72 hours of idle Android packets behind pfSense

So i wanted to know what an Android phone actually transmits when you aren't touching it most articles say "Google collects a lot of data" but nobody knows to what extent and publishes some proof lets say some packet captures

Stock Android 16 averaged 348.4 requests/hour to Alphabet ASN 15169 endpoints turning off location and usage diagnostics in settings still left 194.2 requests/hour active mostly checkin.gstatic.com Wi-Fi BSSID surveys. Running GrapheneOS with Sandboxed Play Services dropped traffic to 12.1 requests/hour, while pure GrapheneOS registered zero.

Data is uploaded here : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22848749