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Price seems fair, honestly. The full blown app is like $70, plus upgrades when those come.
I’d gladly pay 70$ for this, for myself and maybe a couple of friends, if it were a one-time purchase. As a subscription, I just closed the page. Several apps on the Mac App Store have both subscription and lifetime pricing. I’ve bought several.
I bought little snitch years ago but could never get into using it consistently. Always seemed like a chore.
I would happily pay $20 or $30 for a version of this, but I will absolutely not pay a subscription fee for extra features. I have too many subscriptions... I want to support this developer but not this way. Uninstalling :(
It's so cheap, why do you care?
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I’d gladly pay 70$ for this, for myself and maybe a couple of friends, if it were a one-time purchase. As a subscription, I just closed the page. Several apps on the Mac App Store have both subscription and lifetime pricing. I’ve bought several.
The non-Mini version of Little Snitch is a one-time purchase.
¹ I don’t want to become a networking expert and babysit everything. I already practice good security regarding what I install and run, I just want a little more control.
² And if it was a bother for me, there’s zero chance any of my non-technical friends would last an hour.
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Completely agree. Occasionally I run Charles Proxy[1] on my iPhone to analyze network activity and am disturbed by what I see. Software shouldn't be able to open arbitrary network connections without user consent/control, but we're not there yet to a large enough degree on mobile unfortunately. [1] https://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/ios/
The reality is that this sort of control would only be attractive to a very very small fraction of users, and no, not just because ‘people don’t care about privacy’ or whatever. There are just very few situations where someone is going to be able to look at this sort of data and do anything meaningful with it, especially when a) most apps are justifiably internet-connected, and b) the homogeneity of public cloud infr…
I bought Little Snitch long ago but managed to squander my license a couple of years later. Mini is unfortunately a subscription app, which is something I these days consider a hostile/unfriendly business pattern. I won't be going back. LuLu is a free alternative.
I would happily pay $20 or $30 for a version of this, but I will absolutely not pay a subscription fee for extra features. I have too many subscriptions... I want to support this developer but not this way. Uninstalling :(
and then pay for parts of your computer to NOT talk to the internet on a monthly basis!
I bought Little Snitch long ago but managed to squander my license a couple of years later. Mini is unfortunately a subscription app, which is something I these days consider a hostile/unfriendly business pattern. I won't be going back. LuLu is a free alternative.
In-App Purchases:
Yearly Subscription $13.49
Monthly Subscription $1.49
The real question is, is little snitch rent seeking? Given what happened after Catalina, I am giving them the benefit of the doubt at the moment. Paying for updates before receiving them definitely creates a conflict of interest.
Having looked at their website and seeing SKU-ification (Cutting a product different ways to try to hit different price points) and other business over product decisions, I am definitely feeling shaky about the future of little snitch. SKU-ification is 10x the red flag that a subscription model is.
It's worth considering that viruses now days will check and see if programs like this are running and then delete themselves rather than execute the payload.
I would happily pay $20 or $30 for a version of this, but I will absolutely not pay a subscription fee for extra features. I have too many subscriptions... I want to support this developer but not this way. Uninstalling :(
It's so cheap, why do you care?