Disabling Tracker protection and App Security consecutively had no effect on the battery drain. Switching off also Browsing protection has maybe cut down battery drain somewhat, though sample size is small as it's only been off for roughly a day.   Also as I said earlier tracker and browsing protection should only apply when actively using the phone, while Freedome has been draining battery *especially* when the phone is not in use. ... View more

Both wifi and mobile data are already enabled.   The Freedome usage data I had already disabled earlier to see if that has any effect (haven't really noticed a change).   Disabling any of the protective features seems counterintuitive given they are things the app is supposed to be doing. Also, all three seem operations that would only get used during active phone use (e.g. browsing), yet the battery drain occurs even when the phone is basically idle (for hours).   But I guess I can try and see. ... View more

1. Both wifi and mobile are already selected. 2. It did not occur to me that you can set apps to bypass vpn, but after setting this the few updates that were pending started to download normally. But bypassing the vpn is far from a good workaround, even though no truly personal data (I guess?) transfers between the phone and Google Store for a theoretical "snooper" somewhere in between. 3. This did not seem necessary, as the above worked (but I did try it for Chrome anyway, though I mostly use Firefox). ... View more

Actually I've since noticed the problem hasn't gone away, occasionally the updates still just sit on "waiting to download..." and don't progress. ... View more

Emptying Freedome cache and data had no effect, its battery usage remains at same high level. ... View more

It's v. 2.5.5.7918. But oddly enough, the updates started working normally today after several days of being blocked. I only turned the vpn off once more to install some updates, and some time later more updates became available which then got downloaded normally through the vpn. Strange, but it seems this is no longer an issue, thanks. ... View more

Do you have other VPN software running? I noticed that if you turn on NoRoot Firewall it shuts down Freedome VPN (which I guess makes sense that it's not possible to have two different VPNs in effect at the same time?). ... View more

What the...? Why has my response from earlier today been removed, where I only provided additional information with several examples of Spanish online tv content which are geoblocked?   You don't want anyone else to see and have proof that Freedome actually fails to deliver what it promises, or what? ... View more

I am now trying to view Spanish online tv on another pc using Freedome, just to be sure the problem does not occur only on my laptop.   Apparently at this moment (1230 EET) the live stream at cuatro.com is visible (in a normal Firefox session, as in Firefox Private mode the live stream does not start; in Edge Private mode it shows), so I think they only block some programs. I've mostly tried to watch it in evening time EET and that's when the geoblocked message started to appear recently. Also note that when opening the Cuatro live stream it first displays three advertisements before the actual geoblocking message (or live stream) appears.   However, it happens with other Spanish channels, too. E.g. trying to view an episode of the serie Fariña of the channel Antena 3 it now only displays "Contenido no disponible en su zona geográfica":   www.atresplayer.com/antena3/series/farina/temporada-1/capitulo-10-1990_5af2cf1c7ed1a85831a8e201/   Same happens e.g. just now with the live streams of the channels Neox, Nova and Divinity :   www.atresplayer.com/directos/neox/ www.atresplayer.com/directos/nova/ www.divinity.es/endirecto/    ("Este es un contenido geoblockeado. El video sólo se puede ver desde territorio español")   ... View more