Regardless of how many thousands of alerts you see in your Guardian app, these should not slow down your device or take up much storage at all. We actually use a very compact database in order to store this information, so that folks can retain the full history and counts of what firms have been trying to track you. You can verify this by checking the storage on your iPhone device or Android device. The blocking of trackers is happening within the cloud so the processing is not happening on the device and will not drain the battery life either.

For iOS check by doing the following on your device:

• Navigate to Settings > General > iPhone Storage and then scroll to tap "Guardian Firewall" in order to see that the space used will be probably less than 40 MB at most (That's about the size of 4 high-resolution photos!)

For Android check by doing the following on your device: 

• Navigate to Settings > Storage > Other Apps and scroll to tap " Guardian" in order to see that the space used will be probably less than 30MB at most (That's about the size of 3 high-resolution photos!)