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Little Snitch is one of my favorite pieces of software, it is truly amazing how noisy most software is. Without it, your ISP knows even what programs you have open because they call home every 15 minutes for stupid reasons.
"... stupid reasons." Do you think developers assume you will not notice or will not care? In my experience, most if not all of this software uses DNS for the attempted dial outs. Running my own DNS makes blocking easy.
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I looked at PDANet and I don't realy understand... My Android phone (galaxy s6) can do all that by default under Settings->Tethering and Hotspot. I do live in Europe though and I've never heard about a "tether plan". Is that some American weirdness maybe?
I wasn't aware that it was an American weirdness, but phone carriers here can, and mostly do, charge us to tether our phone to another device [1]. There is at least one legal exception, where consumers whose data is transmitted via the 700 MHz frequency band can not be charged for tethering [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethering#United_States_of_Ame... ; It looks like the U.K. has similar tethering charges […
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I wasn't aware that it was an American weirdness, but phone carriers here can, and mostly do, charge us to tether our phone to another device [1]. There is at least one legal exception, where consumers whose data is transmitted via the 700 MHz frequency band can not be charged for tethering [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethering#United_States_of_Ame... ; It looks like the U.K. has similar tethering charges […
That's really weird. It's just data?