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Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by Zetice »

hh3k0 wrote: post #70
Zetice wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's so cheap, why do you care?

Why wouldn't he care? Keeping track of all the subscriptions "forced" upon you is a huge pain in the ass these days – and seemingly getting worse. Personally, I refuse to use subscription services out of principle. I much prefer to pay once and have it off my mind.

Wouldn't a saner way to live be to judge the value you get out of something to determine how much you're willing to pay for its use?

Just seems needlessly limiting to act like this out of principle.

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by paxys »

slimebot80 wrote: post #93

Silly question, but how do we know to trust an app where all internet traffic passes through it? There's a lot of scrutiny of VPN services in this regard, should it be the same here?

At some level you have to trust whatever you install on your computer. There's no way to ever prove that it is safe or not. If the developer's reputation, recommendations by the community, quality of the product etc. aren't enough then it's best to just not use it.

Beyond that, Little Snitch (and Little Snitch Mini I assume) operates as a network firewall. It can see the domain where the traffic is going, and block it if it wants, but can't see or decrypt the contents of the message. The OS itself will not allow it to.

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by latexr »

happybuy wrote: post #107
latexr wrote: post #87

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> 3-4 years of subscription approximately being equal to a license sounds reasonable. Which is probably why the apps on the App Store which offer both subscription and lifetime pricing tend to have the latter at about 3 times the cost of the former. But Little Snitch Mini does not offer that choice. I’d be willing to pay more than 40$ for a one-time purchase of Little Snitch Mini, but there’s zero chance I’ll do it a…

Lifetime pricing / one-time purchases seem to be a double-edged sword for app sellers. You satisfy users who are happy to pay a large amount upfront by they are also likely your most enthusiastic customers. So in essence they would be the customers who would probably pay more than 3 years of subscriptions over the period the lifetime payment covers. Users who aren't that enthusiastic are more likely to not use the ap…

Your most enthusiastic users are also the ones who help you get more users. They hype your app to others and get the less enthusiastic to buy or subscribe. So by not satisfying the most enthusiastic you’re denying one of the strongest word-of-mouth and recommendation channels, which also makes you lose the less enthusiastic.

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by jzb »

latexr wrote: post #124
happybuy wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lifetime pricing / one-time purchases seem to be a double-edged sword for app sellers. You satisfy users who are happy to pay a large amount upfront by they are also likely your most enthusiastic customers. So in essence they would be the customers who would probably pay more than 3 years of subscriptions over the period the lifetime payment covers. Users who aren't that enthusiastic are more likely to not use the ap…

Your most enthusiastic users are also the ones who help you get more users. They hype your app to others and get the less enthusiastic to buy or subscribe. So by not satisfying the most enthusiastic you’re denying one of the strongest word-of-mouth and recommendation channels, which also makes you lose the less enthusiastic.

I think influencers, sorry, “the enthusiastic” tend to vastly overestimate the value of word of mouth recommendations vs recurring revenue.

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by dhess »

bredren wrote: post #103
chatmasta wrote: post #63

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Little Snitch is great, but it does a bit too much for my liking. I've been using LuLu [0] which is a free product from Patrick Wardle, and I'm pretty happy with it. It mostly stays out of the way and I just need to approve new connections the first time I run an app. [0] https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html

Do you use Spaces in MacOS? LS seems to have trouble popping transfer attempt warning modals even if set to all desktops.

I've seen this recently, but only in the last few months, after years of using Little Snitch with Spaces, so I think it's a new thing either with the most recent version of Little Snitch, or macOS Ventura.

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by daveidol »

latexr wrote: post #101
lockhouse wrote: post #94

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In all fairness, you can't even buy a cup of black coffee from a 7-Eleven for that much.

Please let’s stop comparing software subscriptions to coffee. It misses the point about the recurring cost and lock in, and not everyone lives in the USA and pays high prices for coffee every day (or ever). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32738791

But if the developers live in the USA then they are paying high prices for coffee, and thus require a commensurate level of return on their work to survive.
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