Vanilla wireguard, tailscale, netbird, zerotier, any number of overlay networks will fix this issue for you and allow you to be productive even when you’re not at home.
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Little Snitch 6 Released for macOS Sonoma With DNS Encryption, Integrated Blocklists, New Traffic Chart, and More
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There are indeed multiple options. PiHole is an option, but you can also use a third party DNS (I use nextdns.io) and there is even more..
But competition is good for quality.
Developing and supporting software costs money, they need to recoup costs if we want to see new feastures added and support for OS changes continued.
Frustrating I know as often the cost is not insignificant, but in many cases unavoidable.
While I have been using Lulu for last few years, I have to say that I did consider Little Snitch because it is definitely more fully featured. But if nothing else, people should use Lulu.
Apple built-in firewall is a bit of a joke. Just as Microsoft's Windows firewall (which is unable to block outgoing connections at all, unless per profile).
Apple built-in firewall is a bit of a joke. Just as Microsoft's Windows firewall (which is unable to block outgoing connections at all, unless per profile).
It's 59$ per device...That's just overpriced. What do people with 4 Macs do? buy 4 times the software? No man.
"A single license is valid for all your machines as long as you are the only user."
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are you guys subscribed to all their blocklists or just few of them? Is there any danger with the blocklist? ie. could the malware blocklist for example be 'rotten' and actually get you infected? (most likely not but still wonder if there is any downside to be aware of)
The single license is good for 1 person who has multiple computers, or for one Mac with multiple users.
How does it work as an adblocker?
I'm using Nord VPN's Threat Protection (only the web variant) but I'd love to have one process less in the background.
Is little snitch alone enough to block ads?
Thank you!
From what I'm seeing, they're just a list of domains that are blocked (and not allowed).
I don't think there's really a substantial risk.
Depends on your use case.
Little Snitch tells you where your Mac is connecting to, and allows you to block as you desire. So not only do you know who and what your Mac is talking to, you can block that communication.
VPN doesn't block anything, nor does it tell you where your Mac is connecting. It does obfuscate your usage, but data still gets transmitted that you probably have no idea is leaving your Mac.
You can use both at the same time.
ETA: the website does a good job at explaining what it does: https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
Not to jump on the post anymore than y’all have already done. No clue the age or Mac usage of the poster, but I would suspect that they and likely many other newer MR members never did the following...
Pay $129 for a little box and a disc of Jaguar.
Then another $129 for Panther.
Then another $129 for Tiger.
Then another… you get the picture.
And we didnt do it begrudgingly, but we did it with joy. Even CompUSA had launch parties for the new OSes. The thrill of a new OS that had been through at least 18 months-24 months of testing (yea that used to happen) would be the highlight of my hobby time.
New MR members: us old timers used to pay, yes pay money, for our operating system upgrades. And it wasn't even a download—we had to burn gasoline to drive (for me) an hour away just to find an Apple reseller because an actual Apple Store was not even in my state.
(Ned Flanders tone
H E double hockey sticks… I even remember paying $10 to Apple one time so that my iPod touch could have a plist file edited so that I could use the same apps iOS already came with, lol.
Without Little Snitch I would not have discovered that macOS Mail still tries to connect to web servers to download content from email messages even when that option has been turned off in the settings and this allegedly shouldn't be happening. I'm also grateful to be able to block those connections!
Probably because the last paid release came out 4 years ago in 2020? Cheapskates and privileged spoiled brats who think the world owes them everything without giving anything back are your primary pirate folks.
Can’t be mad when good software asks for a paid upgrade every 3-4 years. That’s beyond reasonable in the age of BS subscriptions everywhere.
How exactly do you do that with LS? Or is this a feature of the new version?
I know how to block as those links as they appear, I just haven’t been able to figure out how block all communications from certain countries just based on the country of origin before the link is opened.
Control D DNS (not the free ones) on my iPhone, my iPad and on my Asus router, and Little Snitch on my Mac mini M1.
(AFAIK) no unwanted/unexpected traffic from my devices.
upgraded from version 5 with pleasure. Good software deserve every penny.
(AFAIK) no unwanted/unexpected traffic from my devices.
upgraded from version 5 with pleasure. Good software deserve every penny.
Apple and privacy? Uhh what are you saying? Apple never cares about YOUR privacy. They only pretend to care.
So it seems that everyone working must be volunteers who are not getting paid, including engineers, financial analysts, front line workers etc.
Maybe your work is done with no remuneration whatsoever I’d imagine.
Customer is squarely blamed for the proliferation of widespread use of subscription model.
Most likely.
First of all, it is not always feasible to carry a hardware with you all around acting as a firewall. Second, if a piece of software can do all the work nice and clean, why bother with all the hardware hassle?
I consider this software critical. It’s one of the first things I install. It provides tremendous insight into what’s actually going on. It’s a first line of defense into figuring out if a system has been compromised. The ability to control traffic is secondary to its ability to monitor traffic IMO. It’s also just excellent software.