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I want to drop that list into little snitch. In fact, when I install Little Snitch, I want it to ask me "would you like to subscribe to iamdave's list?"
Hrm. I think you've given me something fun to spend my weekend on
What I want for all these services (Little Snitch, ESET, etc) is an EasyList-like ... list. A community-aggregated and reviewed list of servers that don't merit my connection. I'd pay a monthly subscription fee for that. I'd also like separate lists for * "this wifi is public, be extra cautious" * "this wifi is public, be nice and don't torrent, do backups, etc" * "I'm on a metered connection (e.g. LTE), don't run to…
Personally I avoid using third party DNS, but if there is demand for this...
What I want for all these services (Little Snitch, ESET, etc) is an EasyList-like ... list. A community-aggregated and reviewed list of servers that don't merit my connection. I'd pay a monthly subscription fee for that. I'd also like separate lists for * "this wifi is public, be extra cautious" * "this wifi is public, be nice and don't torrent, do backups, etc" * "I'm on a metered connection (e.g. LTE), don't run to…
What if I start a DNS service that blocks every ad server domainname in the "EasyList"? Personally I avoid using third party DNS, but if there is demand for this...
> This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Weird choice of license.
As someone unfamiliair, what is weird about the choice?
> We recommend against using Creative Commons licenses for software. Instead, we strongly encourage you to use one of the very good software licenses which are already available. We recommend considering licenses made available by the Free Software Foundation or listed as “open source” by the Open Source Initiative.
For those on Windows, http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/index.html does the same using the native firewall (so no 3rd party dependencies, services, or bloat) (though they've ~recently added paid licenses with more features to their basic offering). I only wish it were cleaner and simpler. I don't think the Windows Firewall API is too bad, I should add this to my bucket list of open source software to write that I'll m…
When the native firewall in Windows blocks something, doesn't the connection attempt fail immediately? For example while the Little Snitch popup dialog is waiting for user input the affected application just sees an unusual latency spike and it will not complain immediately that internet access in not available. Afaik, this is not the case with the Windows Firewall: The connection will fail for the application while…
For those on Windows, http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/index.html does the same using the native firewall (so no 3rd party dependencies, services, or bloat) (though they've ~recently added paid licenses with more features to their basic offering). I only wish it were cleaner and simpler. I don't think the Windows Firewall API is too bad, I should add this to my bucket list of open source software to write that I'll m…
TinyWall... other LittleSnitch-like apps on windows aren't anywhere near as nice as LittleSnitch, but TinyWall gets rid of the crappy prompts firing a million times a day until you configure it (the thing that sucks is apps like ChromeUpdate and others can get around the firewall somehow, so if you're set to prompt, it will prompt you all day long, so TinyWall makes it all sane).
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I handle this for my whole network with a pi-hole[0]. [0] https://pi-hole.net
When I tried pi-hole I was amazed by it. Until the day I discovered someone in China hacked it :-///
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I want to drop that list into little snitch. In fact, when I install Little Snitch, I want it to ask me "would you like to subscribe to iamdave's list?"
Hrm. I think you've given me something fun to spend my weekend on
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When the native firewall in Windows blocks something, doesn't the connection attempt fail immediately? For example while the Little Snitch popup dialog is waiting for user input the affected application just sees an unusual latency spike and it will not complain immediately that internet access in not available. Afaik, this is not the case with the Windows Firewall: The connection will fail for the application while…
Yes, that's correct. MacOS handles this better. But really it only comes up when you run a _new_ program, so it's not a major problem.
What I want for all these services (Little Snitch, ESET, etc) is an EasyList-like ... list. A community-aggregated and reviewed list of servers that don't merit my connection. I'd pay a monthly subscription fee for that. I'd also like separate lists for * "this wifi is public, be extra cautious" * "this wifi is public, be nice and don't torrent, do backups, etc" * "I'm on a metered connection (e.g. LTE), don't run to…
Little Snitch has this with automatic profile switching: https://blog.obdev.at/automatic-profile-switching/ though you will have to build the list of rules yourself
ie., turn Apple Telemetry on or off.