Little Snitch Mini
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Little Snitch Mini
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#2How does this compare to the "LuLu" app from Objective-See? IIRC that one was open source, while this isn't.
A few years ago there was a concern that Apple was exempting itself from some of these firewalls. Were these concerns ever addressed in any meaningful way by any of these apps since then?
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#3How is this different from the traditional version of Little Snitch?
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#4I bought little snitch years ago but could never get into using it consistently. Always seemed like a chore.
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#5The monitoring is super useful for metered connections (looking at you, Comcast/Xfinity) and I happily paid for the full Little Snitch for that feature. Super glad to hear it’s free now! I’ve tried to recommend it to people and it was a bit of a big purchase for most to stomach just for the monitoring features.
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#6As someone who's been paying for Little Snitch for a long time this is an odd move, as this seems to do everything I would want.
Sure, I've availed of some of the more advanced features in the paid version, but they definitely never seemed essential to me. What I mainly need is the basics they've included in the free version now.
I wonder if this is a direct response to Lulu (have been meaning to try it but migration is friction)
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#7How is this different from the traditional version of Little Snitch?
https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-mini/compare.html
Basically a lot fewer filtering features, and only monitoring for free.
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#8How is this different from the traditional version of Little Snitch?
They have a comparison page: https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-mini/compare.html
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#9How does this compare to the "LuLu" app from Objective-See? IIRC that one was open source, while this isn't. A few years ago there was a concern that Apple was exempting itself from some of these firewalls. Were these concerns ever addressed in any meaningful way by any of these apps since then?
> IIRC that one was open source, while this isn't.
Yes. Little Snitch has been around for for a long time, though, something like 20 years. The developer Obdev is trustworthy, and I wholeheartedly recommend Little Snitch (the full version; I haven't tried the Mini version).
> A few years ago there was a concern that Apple was exempting itself from some of these firewalls. Were these concerns ever addressed in any meaningful way by any of these apps since then?
Apple fixed the issue.
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#10People are probably going to be confused between this and the "full" version of Little Snitch. My take on it is that Little Snitch Mini is something you can install on a non-technical friend or family member's computer whereas power users may want to stick with the existing offering.
I say this as a long time heavy user of Little Snitch. It's very annoying when you first get it installed, but it provides really useful control over what installed software is getting up to. After a time you settle into a natural rule set for your personal patterns and only see alerts when new or updated software tries a network connection that hasn't been seen before.
"Mini" strikes me as much more of a fire-and-forget product, which I appreciate but won't personally use.