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You’re giving me ptsd of LittleSnitch + any Adobe (or microsoft) product. You seriously can’t even use the machine without blanket, permanent approvals… the endless flood of network requests is paralyzing.
MS Office doesn't need permanent approval. I have Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Autoupdate and Update Assistant blocked from making any outgoing connection (on MacOS). That works for about a month, then I have to unblock briefly to let the licence check work. I don't use Adobe these days.
I got rid of both, not too long ago, but even trying to be careful about approving office chatter got me that read-only license check bar all the time. And getting rid of it meant clearing rules and blanket Approve for a time, or a flood of individual ones.
Also excising Adobe was not simple.