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by lukewrites 21 days ago
I’ve been using Little Snitch on my Mac for years now because I want to be aware of (and be able to turn off) the connections programs make. Probably the weirdest one I’ve caught was a new seagate hdd that required you to run an executable file to be able to format the drive, which then tried to connect to baidu.

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1 comments
gib444 21 days ago
It's so noisy though because of apps' built in update checks and other legitimate things initially, which you then grant a process exception for. Per destination allow rules would also generate a lot of popups. Then the user just grants exceptions for all traffic or suffers alert fatigue

It's useful for apps that should not have any outbound networking

But fundamentally I don't think it moves the needle that much on the bigger picture

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