🛡️ GhostFirewall

Your Digital Guardian Against Gambling Addiction

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Why GhostFirewall?

GhostFirewall is a phone app that helps you stop gambling sites and protect your privacy. It blocks harmful websites, ads, and companies that follow you online, with everything handled on the device and nothing sent to our servers.

📡 How your data is collected, often without you knowing

Many people think information is only taken when they read and accept a privacy policy. In truth, it is gathered in many hidden ways while you scroll, install an app, or tap Accept just to close a pop-up. The text is long, the screen feels urgent, and the main button is easy to tap. Most people press Accept all without reading, and companies rely on that.

Common ways your data is taken

  • Privacy pop-ups: When you first open an app, Google, Facebook, or ad companies ask you to agree to tracking, not only to “make the app work.”
  • Hidden trackers in apps: Tools like Google Analytics, Firebase, Facebook, AdMob, and Unity Ads are built into many games and utilities. They send data back when you install, update, or use the app.
  • Ad IDs on your phone: A number on your device can link what you do across apps and websites so companies can infer your interests, spending, location, and even gambling habits.
  • Your internet use: Even without GPS, websites can see your connection address, what you visit, and when, enough to work out your routines and weak moments.
  • Apps running in the background: Free apps often keep sending usage data while your screen is off.
  • Texts and notifications: Who contacted you, when, and how often can be used for marketing. Gambling firms buy lists of people they think might bet again.
  • Installs and updates: When you install or remove an app, that can be logged and used to show you “come back” offers.
  • How long you use apps: Screen time and taps are often sold as “analytics” but used to target ads and keep you hooked.
  • Joined-up profiles: Companies combine phone, web, and shopping data so a bet on one site can lead to ads in another app hours later.

The “Accept” trap: These screens are built for speed, not for you to understand them. You may have legally “agreed,” but you were pushed to tap quickly. GhostFirewall blocks tracking tools by default, stops ad and spy websites at the connection level, and keeps checks local so your recovery is not sold as someone else’s product.

⚠️ Why GhostFirewall Cannot Be on Google Play Store

Google Play's policies prevent apps like GhostFirewall from being available on their platform.

Google requires apps to allow their tracking systems to monitor what you do. These systems are designed to:

  • Exploit addictions: Follow your gambling habits to show more betting ads when you are vulnerable
  • Reach children: Push new types of addictions to children through manipulative advertising (toys, makeup, games, etc.)
  • Aggressive Manipulation: Use tracking to find your weak moments and push ads that exploit them
  • Data Collection: Collect and sell data about what you do to advertisers
  • Privacy Violation: Record everything you do to build profiles for targeted advertising

GhostFirewall refuses to participate in this system. We protect your privacy by keeping everything on your device. We do not watch you, sell your information, or let Google monitor your recovery journey. That's why we can't be on Google Play: we put your privacy and recovery ahead of their profit-driven surveillance.

🎯 Who Is GhostFirewall For?

For People in Recovery

Breaking free from gambling addiction requires support and protection. GhostFirewall provides automatic blocking to help you stay strong when you need it most.

For Families

Help protect loved ones by blocking gambling sites and apps on their phone. All checks stay on the device; we do not monitor their activity remotely.

For people who care about privacy

If you do not want your data collected, tracked, or sold to advertisers, GhostFirewall is for you.

✨ Key Features

🎰 Gambling Protection

Blocks 5,714 gambling domains (on-device list) and can block gambling apps when enabled. Works through your secure connection around the clock.

🔒 Privacy First

All checks run locally. Nothing is sent to our servers. We do not follow you online or collect your information.

⚡ Battery Optimised

Smart power management with minimal background usage. Works all day without draining your battery or impacting performance.

🧠 Smart blocking across categories

Automatic checks block gambling, adult content, ads, trackers, scams, and junk websites, while still allowing educational sites.

📱 SMS Blocking

Blocks gambling spam, scam texts, and promotional messages before they reach your inbox. Works automatically, 24/7.

🚫 Blocks tracking on new apps

When you install a new app, we block Google Analytics, Facebook, Firebase, Crashlytics, AdMob, and Unity Ads by default on your connection. Optional accessibility help can tap “Reject” on many consent pop-ups if you enable it in Android settings.

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🔕 Notification Filtering

Silences social, games, and junk alerts. Only important SMS, WhatsApp, and email notifications get through, so you can focus on recovery.

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⚡ App Auto-Killer

Checks apps every 5 seconds and closes inactive user apps after 10 seconds with no use. Saves battery and may reduce background data use. System and messaging apps stay protected. Requires Usage Access in Settings.

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🛡️ Advanced Protection

These features sit behind GhostFirewall: automatic blocking of tracking tools, fewer distracting alerts, and closing apps that run in the background. All processing stays on the device; nothing is sent to the cloud for analysis.

Domains on block lists
8,150
Block lists in use
5 lists
Tracking tools blocked
6 companies
On your phone only
100% local

🚫 Companies we block on install

When you install a new app, GhostFirewall automatically refuses tracking from these firms, then blocks them through your secure connection and on-phone rules.

Company Type Status
Google AnalyticsTrackingBLOCKED
FacebookSocialBLOCKED
Google FirebaseCloud / analyticsBLOCKED
CrashlyticsCrash reportingBLOCKED
Google AdMobAdvertisingBLOCKED
Unity AdsGaming adsBLOCKED

Read more about app install protection →

🔕 Notification Filtering

Blocks every alert by default. Only messages from apps you need are allowed: built-in SMS, Google Messages, Samsung Messages, WhatsApp, WhatsApp Business, and common email apps.

  • Blocked: Social media, games, shopping, news, streaming, and promotional alerts
  • Allowed: SMS, WhatsApp, and email only
  • How: Unwanted alerts are stopped before they appear on your screen

Read more about notification filtering →

⚡ App Auto-Killer

Checks running apps every 5 seconds. If a user app has had no foreground activity for more than 10 seconds, GhostFirewall closes its background processes. This can affect social, games, browsers, shopping, and entertainment apps, along with any other non-system app that meets the rule. System and messaging apps stay protected.

  • Battery: Helps reduce drain from apps left open but not in active use
  • Background data: May cut down quiet network use when processes are closed (tracking is mainly blocked by the firewall and install blocking)
  • Protected: System apps, SMS, WhatsApp, dialer, and GhostFirewall itself
  • Required: Usage Access permission in Android Settings for accurate timing

Read more about closing background apps →

📱 SMS Protection

Blocks harmful texts before they reach your inbox. Available on both Privacy Shield and Gambling Shield plans.

What we block

  • Scam texts: fake account alerts, parcel scams, stolen-password tricks (both plans)
  • Spam: ads, short links, suspicious senders (both plans)
  • Gambling SMS: casino promos, betting odds, operator spam (Gambling Shield only)

Each message is checked locally. Likely spam is blocked automatically (default: 40% confidence). The feature is on by default. Message text is never uploaded to the cloud.

Privacy: local checks only, anonymous block counts in settings, no rooting or special setup required.

💰 Premium Plans

Privacy Shield Plan

£10.99

per month, blocking without gambling

  • Ad and tracker protection (1,448 domains on list)
  • 100% privacy protection (local processing only)
  • SMS blocking (spam, scams, advertising)
  • Live monitoring and statistics
  • Protection from harmful and scam websites
  • Low-quality domain blocking
  • No data collection or cloud uploads
  • Works offline for checks; nothing sent to our servers

Note: Does NOT include gambling site blocking

Gambling Shield Subscription

£4.99

per month, full blocking including gambling

  • Gambling site blocking (5,714 domains on list)
  • App-level blocking for gambling apps (when enabled)
  • SMS blocking (gambling spam, scams, advertising)
  • Ad and tracker protection (1,448 domains on list)
  • Subscription lock periods (choose how long blocking stays on)
  • Malware and harmful site lists (179 + 247 content domains)
  • 100% privacy protection (local processing only)
  • Priority support
  • Regular updates and new features

Recommended: Full protection for gambling recovery

💡 Subscription Verification

Once your subscription is initiated via email, we will verify your payment and send your unique activation code. Subscriptions are activated manually to prevent automated abuse.

📊 Protection Statistics

5,714
Gambling domains on list
1,448
Ad & tracker domains
8,150
Total domains on lists
24/7
Protection while enabled
40%
Default SMS filter threshold

🌱 Why Privacy Matters

Your Privacy is Your Right

Unlike apps on Google Play that must allow tracking, GhostFirewall protects your privacy by design:

  • No Data Collection: We don't collect your information
  • Offline Processing: Everything happens on your device
  • No Tracking: Your browsing is completely private
  • No exploitation: We do not use surveillance to manipulate your behaviour
  • Your Control: You decide what's blocked, not advertisers

🌍 Environmental Responsibility & Zero Carbon Impact

♻️ Zero Carbon Footprint Technology

GhostFirewall is designed with environmental responsibility at its core. Our commitment to zero carbon impact means we've eliminated the need for energy-intensive server infrastructure.

  • No Server Processing: Local checks mean zero data centre emissions
  • Minimal Data Transmission: Nothing leaves your device for analysis
  • Low Battery Usage: Lightweight code uses less power day to day
  • Sustainable Technology: Works on older devices, extending device lifespans
  • Lower cloud use: No remote servers processing your browsing (less data-centre load than cloud filters)

Our Promise: Every feature is built to protect both you and the planet. By choosing GhostFirewall, you support technology that weighs environmental impact as seriously as your recovery.

💚 Our Mission: Positive Impact on Families & Communities

At GhostFirewall, we believe that every problem has a solution. We don't see obstacles, we see chances to help families and communities in a real, lasting way.

Our commitment:

  • Family Protection: Helping families shield loved ones from gambling addiction
  • Community Support: Giving recovery groups accessible, privacy-first tools
  • Real Solutions: Turning challenges into practical change
  • Sustainable Impact: Building technology that benefits people and the planet
  • Accessible Recovery: Making recovery tools available to everyone, regardless of financial means
  • Privacy-First Approach: Protecting families from both gambling and invasive tracking

🚀 Get GhostFirewall

How it works

  1. Request access: Contact us for the Android app (not on Google Play)
  2. Install: Install on your phone when you receive the file (Android 8.0 or newer)
  3. Enable: Allow secure connection and SMS permissions, then start protection
  4. Protect: Blocking runs around the clock for websites, apps, and texts; no rooting or special setup needed

Request access

We refuse hidden trackers and “Accept all” harvesting, so the app is not listed on Google Play. To request a copy, use the Contact tab or email below.

When you receive the app package, installation steps:

  1. Enable install from unknown sources in Android settings (if prompted)
  2. Open the file you were sent and confirm install
  3. Allow secure connection, SMS, and notification permissions when asked
  4. Start protection from the app home screen

System requirements: Android 8.0 or newer. Root access not required.

GhostFirewall is now distributed via email request to [email protected] for verified members.

📞 Contact & Support

Have questions? Need support? We're here to help.