Thumbs for pi-hole. Pi-hole blocks most ads and makes websites run faster because most of the ad bid links are dead and never executed. My pi-hole server shows it blocked 50% of the link attempts in October. Pages just fly when you do this!
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Little Snitch 5 Released for macOS Big Sur With New Design, Improved Network Traffic Monitoring, and More
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For me, I find it less of an issue of general repeated connections, and more of an issue where those connections are specifically going to. Many, many apps report your usage to analytics companies that track your usage. Many apps also connect to Facebook, even if you're not logged in via Facebook and should have no ties to Facebook. LS helps with blocking whole machine connections to these social and/or analytics sites.
Anyone who downloaded Lockdown for iOS and uses the pre-installed filters on that app, would also appreciate Little Snitch.
How is Apple invading your privacy by connecting to the App Store?
It's possible. There were .ru sites and a bunch of sites for what appeared to be pictures and a lot of strange things. I don't remember any repeating. I don't think I let it even get to fully operational. I remember things like "spotify.com" being kinda far down the list.
At this point, "no one" can make claim to AS support. No products exist outside of the Developer Transition Kit, which will not be a release machine in its present form. Xcode 12.2 is also required to build such apps, and is itself in beta. When Big Sur, and particularly Xcode12.2 go to GM, we're likely to see a lot of AS-support announcements in a hurry.
Unless you use Internet Sharing to turn your Mac into a home router
I used to do that. It works ok, but it's not very fast or energy-efficient.
Personally, I felt the initial cost of the app was pretty high for a software firewall. I'm glad I can use my license for a few years at least without additional fees.Except if you’re the developer
Everything I install will make tons of connections. How does it help me to know that? I used Little Snitch back in 2010, and even then I couldn't make use of it, but I understand there are gurus. Or maybe the newer one has analytics capabilities that can tell me whether something is really wrong.
If I understand correctly, PiHole is only a DNS server, maybe also a DHCP server. It's not a gateway to the Internet intercepting packets, just pointing DNS results of advertisers to something bogus for those who ask it.
Since so many things rely on DNS lookup, you can reliably trick them into not phoning home with just a PiHole. But who knows, they may fall back to a hardcoded DNS server when they can't reach what they want.
Yea, hence I said broad strokes. I understand the the underlying means and technology are different, but the ends are the same: monitoring, reporting, and offering to block various outgoing connections. Different means, same ends.
Sorry, I edited. Practically speaking, only issue is I don't know how many devices have a hardcoded DNS fallback. Would be very improper, but I've seen worse.
From reading the pihole subreddit, my understanding is that having a hard-coded DNS is very uncommon (though it does happen). More often some devices will have an IP address coded into the software that they phone home to, bypassing DNS altogether, rather than relying on resolving domains.
what about if i do not want to connect to App store, or apple building profile on my Geo Location, or checking what application i have installed ?
He already has one. macOS is a UNIX 03 compliant operating system.
I'm a little disappointed with the upgrade pricing this time around. I know this is the usual upgrade price as I've been using LS since the 1st version. However, a new macOS upgrade doesn't usually 'require' an upgrade to the latest version of LS and I can usually run the older version of LS until I am ready to upgrade. On this occasion, that's not possible and an upgrade of LS is absolutely required, to run on macOS 11. With this in mind I was hoping that Objective Dev would give a better price for the upgrade this time, sub €15. Money is so tight since lockdown started due to issues with work that I can't even afford the upgrade to LS 5, so I guess I'll have to stop using it for a few months until I get back to work 🙁. Bloody Covid!
That's true, my only thing is, even when I buy a 5 seat license, I get a discount, and I'll still be paying $89.
The only thing is, that's like every time macOS comes out, it's costing me $20, per mac!
I remember the days when macOS was $20!!
They aren't building macOS or doing as much work as Apple, geesh!
I mean $50 for a 5 seat half off upgrade would be reasonable... damn!
Laters...
Now this is a developer who got it all right. Taking full advantage of their Apple Developer account and being able to ensure that their software works when the release hits.
Also nice how they always offer loyal customers discounts to new major releases. And they are not the ones who charge with each new macOS release.
Also nice how they always offer loyal customers discounts to new major releases. And they are not the ones who charge with each new macOS release.