Hello, my Android Phone (BQ Aquaris C) makes connections to mtalk.google.com about every 30 minutes. When I block the domain it tries to connect to several alternative mtalk servers. I use the phone without a Google account and I deactivated all Google apps in the settings menu. Can anybody tell m…

[image] fegget: Can anybody tell me more about this domain and why these connections are made? It's a (obviously :slight_smile: ) google domain. To be more exact, it's a domain that's used by google talk and other apps that use the same platform. It "calls" home every 30 minutes, for status …

I don't use any Google messenger product and I disabled all Google apps on my phone. Still it really wants to connect to this mtalk server. After I blacklisted the domain it tried to connect to 8 different alternative servers (which I also blocked by now). I even used mitmproxy to look at the transm…

[image] fegget: Can anybody tell me more about this domain and why these connections are made? domain is used for android notifications, ref here . I use this regex to whitelist the domains (I want notifications), but you can also use it to blacklist the domain, however the queries will not s…

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