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"The full feature set, including connection blocking, extended traffic history time ranges, advanced display and filtering options and more is available as an in-app purchase." So this means as a company using MDM, I cannot purchase it for all my employees. MacOS devs who see IAP and subscriptions as the only purchase paths are leaving corporate purchases on the table. We choose software we can pay for. We are fine i…
Realtime connection info, logfiles and control arefeature of Murus, a frontend to the BSD pf that is included in macOS.
This kind of tool really belongs in your routers not your Max though. Any VC on here should consider writing a check to a startup making coreboot/linuxboot or libreboot routers using hardware that doesn’t originate in China’s sphere of influence. (Even some routers recently sold at Walmart retail have been shown to have CCP backdoors!)
[The ability to Notify a consumer’s Apple devices from their routers (using APNS command line utilities or CURL) has been around for a while so they can just as easily alert when That Guy in St Petersberg is launching a DDOS attack or whatever from the consumer’s p0wnd smartbulbs (as well as whatever trust is being violated by devs on their interactive computers) just like LittleSnitch/SOB/etc.]
Peace
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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…
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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.
I wrote w LS support, it is a Ventura-related issue. They've made a request, but it appears Apple has yet to address the problem.
This, unfortunately, is a major problem for my use of LS. Interrupted connection attempts happen silently and result in different behavior for each app they affect.
I've had the most problems with requests from pycharm, where the binary is updated regularly and needs a bunch of re-authorizations.
I'm ready to give up on Spaces, it is so poorly supported by Apple at this point.
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I generally agree with you so I looked it up. In-App Purchases: Yearly Subscription $13.49 Monthly Subscription $1.49 That's surprisingly modest. 3-4 years of subscription approximately being equal to a license sounds reasonable. The real question is, is little snitch rent seeking? Given what happened after Catalina, I am giving them the benefit of the doubt at the moment. Paying for updates before receiving them def…
> 3-4 years of subscription approximately being equal to a license sounds reasonable. Which is probably why the apps on the App Store which offer both subscription and lifetime pricing tend to have the latter at about 3 times the cost of the former. But Little Snitch Mini does not offer that choice. I’d be willing to pay more than 40$ for a one-time purchase of Little Snitch Mini, but there’s zero chance I’ll do it a…
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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…
I see both sides. This dilemma is capitalist hell. Why is obdev sku-ifying their product? Because the incentive model for selling a license means that the market can saturate and there is a lack of recurring or stable income/income safety for the dev. In order to get new spikes of income, a new product is generated. If the market for a particular license becomes saturated, how will they make more money? Licensed base…
It seems simple to just offer a few different pricing models and let users choose which suits them.
Why not offer both a recurring subscription and a lifetime option ?
Not only do you satisfy both preferences but you leave the lifetime option on the table, for future uptake, from all of the recurring customers.
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I like Jetbrains licensing. Essentially you pay for updates and once you stop paying you’re locked in at that specific version, but you can use it indefinitely.
How does support work for this? Are non-paying customers no longer eligible for support? App wise would this lock features since developers would have no means of shipping X versions of an app I wonder , once the EU opens up the App Store will devs have to deal with cracked apps. Probably the full end of offline apps
Are non-paying customers no longer eligible for support?
The last paragraph is brilliant foresight. I guess apps will need to move towards the AAA gaming market where Internet connection is required to verify license, plus a bunch amazing anti-cheat/-hack stuff. Assuming EU does crack open the app stores (pun intended), it sounds like a great small business to offer some libraries that mobile app devs can use for these new needs.
I've been using Little Snitch for years, and it's probably the most important software on my computer. However, I've noticed a problematic trend in modern software development: developers are using the same hostname to serve both functional and non-functional web APIs. For example, let's say that Apple's Xcode sends harmless data to their telemetry service at telemetry.apple.test. Even though the data is anonymous, I…
By "domain" I think you mean a full FQDN and not a top-level "apple.com" and I agree that this is troublesome and then go further and suggest that this is by design.
Is there a Little Snitch alternative for Windows?
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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.