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Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

rolfrp wrote: post #113
KyeRussell wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

A good set and forget option for the non-tecnical or those that can't be bothered is https://www.iantispy.com , basically just does it's thing and doesn't nag to upgrade.

This product looks a little scary. The ensure mentions no address or names, just that it’s made in Australia and an email address for support.

You’re giving this app complete control of your system and have no idea what they’re doing with the data.

At least with Little Snitch and uBlock Origin, I know who is behind it and maybe there is safety in numbers of users.

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

microtonal wrote: post #165
ary wrote: post #10

People 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 usefu…

I have been a Little Snitch user for a long time, but I am still very much interested in Mini. When an App Store version of something is provided, I prefer that because of the mandatory sandboxing.

What is the sandboxing done by apps from the App Store?

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by slhck »

bartkappenburg wrote: post #178

Love this tool! I upgraded to premium so that I could see which apps are the most chattiest... it turns out to be Tailscale. It connects to a lot of random places across the whole(!) world. See: https://imgur.com/a/Gc5pnih Any reason for this behaviour?

See https://tailscale.com/kb/1232/derp-servers/

They use those relay servers for handling NAT issues, and figuring out which one has the lowest latency requires them to ping them all.

That said you can run your own one if you need to.

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by mrzool »

inconceivable wrote: post #148
Terretta wrote: post #132

"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…

right, i'm sure this guy is going to turn his company into a very specific type of enterprise software vendor just because you want him to.

> turn his company into a very specific type of enterprise software

They would just need to release a pro version of their app you can pay upfront in the App Store, and then release paid updates later following the same model. No need to "turn a company" into anything.

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by gorbypark »

footlose_3815 wrote: post #128

why not make piehole rules for what little snitch covers?

While Little Snitch can do general blocking from a block file, its main use is per-process blocking. With PiHole, you can't see what process on your computer is making the request, just that your computer's IP is making it. Little Snitch (and LuLu) are great, because you can see what program is actually making the request, and block/allow/setup rules for it.

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by lucideer »

darkstar999 wrote: post #13
lucideer wrote: post #6

As 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…

But you don't get connection blocking for free. > The network monitoring functionality, including the real-time connection list, traffic diagrams and the animated map view can be used for free! > 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.

Ah! Ok I did miss that detail. In that case this makes more sense.

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by leokennis »

Unfortunately, if you're on a multi-user computer, MacOS networking (as far as I know) prevents Little Snitch to pass the "wife acceptance factor". Every rule/block I set in LS, applies to all users on the computer.

Re: Little Snitch Mini

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Post by kybernetyk »

Terretta wrote: post #132

"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…

The problem is: you can't do upgrade pricing in the app store. So your users would have to pay full price for a 2.0 upgrade.

You could of course buy outside the app store - but you don't want that. And I don't want that, too (as a dev selling my software). Purchase orders are a PITA and I have been shafted by enterprise more than once. They get their licenses, I'm not getting my money because they just don't pay. Sucks to be me.

As much as I don't like what apple is doing with their app stores I hate enterprise even more. I don't want enterprise as a customer - no matter how much they promise to pay me. (And that sentiment is pretty universal with anyone who had to deal with enterprise customers). Sucks to be you, I guess.

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