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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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I prefer Little Snitch. It does similar things to the Objective-See tools, but I think it’s just easier and quicker to use. I use both though, depending on the machine. For some things the visual map can actually be useful.
Love Little Snitch and use it all the time but since I have nothing that can run Sonoma, I can't upgrade. Stiff OS requirements. Long live Little Snitch 5.
In the future sometime, this will be a great upgrade.
In the future sometime, this will be a great upgrade.
I've been installing it on my Macs using their 5 pack license for ages, but now I actually do a lot of this at the router level (Firewalla Gold +) instead and when I got prompted for the update yesterday I didn't click it. I do travel often with some of my laptops, so it might be work it, but maybe I'll skip 6 and maybe delete 5 for the home machines.
Is this easy for average person to setup? I've been using LS for 10 years so I know basics but the router scares me a little bit. Is Firewalla user friendly for someone who understands tech but is not a coder or anything too complex?
A PiHole doesn't run on your MacBook right? Image bringing in you PiHole to work, hotel or coffee shop and ask them to install it onto their network lol
I am no network expert, but I find that Firewalla is a mostly dummy proof system with a slick GUI experience at home.
I guess if you only have 1 device and it's your Mac. I have a whole family of less savvy Internet consumers to worry about on various devices. Firewalla has a very nice and clean app, the device covers the whole network.
I do agree if you are on a guest network our not your own administrator, you may prefer something like this.
Isn't there a common problem with anything like this that the company has access to all your data?
ie. if everything goes throught Firewalla then technically they could be the ones that could 'hack' your data if they decided to do so, no?
As that is the common problem with other services like VPN and stuff. So you have to trust the company in the first place, no?
ie. if everything goes throught Firewalla then technically they could be the ones that could 'hack' your data if they decided to do so, no?
As that is the common problem with other services like VPN and stuff. So you have to trust the company in the first place, no?
I've had my eye on this for a while.. used it years ago and have been using the free Lulu firewall recently. Someone remind me to download this when they do their annual sale 😋
Alternatively, you run a VPN (on the same Pi as the Pihole) and set your MacBook / iPhone to automatically connect to it when you're not at home. That way, you're always accessing the internet via your home connection and with the adblocking your own Pihole provides.
Glad it still support older macos version For my mbp 2016. Gonna upgrade like I do every major version
Super easy to setup and there is a large community on their site, reddit, and facebook. It's easy to get started with some default settings and then tune things as needed via the phone app (there is a web interface but I have not used it much).
I suppose they could collect the traffic, blocked flows, etc., but so could LS. I don't know if their inspection would allow them to see unencrypted data in flight, but surely someone smarter will chime in on this (off topic) topic.
I use NextDNS.io with some of the mid-tier aggressive content blockers enabled. I suppose Little Snitch could be useful to see what's still getting through but then it sounds like some material can still bypass Little Snitch anyway.
Firewalla can't really "see" much of your data at all.
And all their code is open-source:
GitHub - firewalla/firewalla: http://firewalla.com
http://firewalla.com. Contribute to firewalla/firewalla development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
I love my Firewallas. I do enough network sysadmin at work. I need my home network to take up less of my mental bandwidth.
A great, useful piece of software. The new-purchase and upgrade prices are worth every penny, especially given the fact that they are not subscription based.
Little Snitch blocks attempted connections, with PiHole you block after the app or the operating system connects and sometimes it's already too late they already collected the data, IP locations etc...
Only at first. Things start settling down once you actually start using it and allowing/denying connections. It's not going to keep nagging you about rules you set permanently.
You are correct it’s 59USD to buy a new license. But still “It's about 30USD to jump from 5 to 6, and you can always just not upgrade at all.”
That was a comment responding to someone lamenting they needed to buy an upgrade, rather than as a free X.0 upgrade.
That’s just gross entitlement and having zero clue how costly and time-consuming it is to continually improve software—especially within Apple’s ecosystem that constantly deprecates and changes things (usually for the better).
The traditional "robust firewall" (you don't say what you mean) is aimed at blocking/allowing by IP address. There is a whole different world of application firewalls which block/allow based on application and not just IP address. Add to that the world of DNS blocking where many dns name translate to the same IP address.
But Adguard Home (also free) does and is arguably easier to configure. And if you don't want to install software you use AdGuard's DNS which includes configurable blocking of trackers, malware and ads.
This is interesting as it gets us to questions about overlapping functionality and whether Little Snitch can replace DNS level blockers (piHole, Adguard, etc.). Every decent security app seems to be adding DNS blocking.