Force Https on android for all connections

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My isp has started doing something weird. All websites like google, youtube, this forum would try to load http version and fail, on refreshing https page will open properly, I already had https everywhere extension installed in my browser so I changed https extension settings to block any non-https request and suddenly all websites started working properly.

As most websites now support https so blocking non-https sites is not a major problem and for such websites I can use other browser.

is there any app or any fix that can work like https everywhere extensions for all connections from android mobile.
 
VPN
 
Interesting use-case. Unfortunately, I can't find an easy way to do this. Basically, it needs to be done in the firewall. Firewall is a low level item in a kernel or phone. So, the non-root version of a firewall couldn't help much. If you can root your device, there are a couple of (paid) options available as can been seen at firewall - Google Play .
 
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this shit started just last week 😕

I don't think lco even know how to do this, may be some new customer is doing this (easy with publicly available tools but usually this breaks the internet ) or my isp started some over optimization to intercept traffic and serve content from cache.
 
Now my problem is how to explain this to lco because internet is working (works on refreshing page) and speedtest shows full speed.

Not many alternatives available.
 
this would however not prevent behaviour like what bsnl is doing on their network 🙁
 
I think my problem is because of over optimization my isp is trying to do which messes up with https as they try to intercept connection and serve content from cache.

Dnscrypt will help in preventing mitm attack.

Bsnl has some malware problem right ?
 
yeah. they randomly redirect visits to http domains. it is a mess based on the active thread.

i remember one of the first isps i had. bandwidth was expensive. and even though i had just 1GB of data allocated (on 64kbps connection iirc?)... he had put in very aggressive caching backend. i was doing web development for an online company at the time. and none of the changes i was making on the web pages appeared because the freak kept on serving pages from the cache. had to dump it because of this issue. there was no https back then for regular websites. and the only other hack was to rename the file, verify the change and renaming it back.
 
i was in faridabad at the time so yeah around that long ago. i think airtel dsl had just launched at that time. and that was the first time i used airtel. i had like 450MB data at 128kbps and it was fantastic at the time.
 
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