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I don't trust that it's not doing data collection of it's own.

• quiowqiourqwiou 10y ago
  exactly. how can one be sure that it doesn't use the network for its own nefarious purposes while hiding its own network activity ?
  • jfnixon 10y ago
    Watch network traffic from a box with LS installed.
  • coldtea 10y ago
    By checking the traffic leaving your network from another machine? DUH!
• jslabovitz 10y ago
  The app costs $35. I presume this is a workable business for the developer, and therefore little economic incentive for data collection or other backdoor/nefarious tactics. I'm much less trusting of free software like most ad-blockers where I have to wonder how they're really making their money.
  • tedmiston 10y ago
    They've also been on the Mac for 10+ years.
    • leejoramo 10y ago
      Objective Development were there from the very beginning of Mac OS X. And prior to that, they were a well known developer for NeXT. Their LaunchBar app originated on NeXTSTEP.
  • beardog 10y ago
    It depends what you mean by "free". Of course all software should be handled with varying degrees of skepticism, but open source software can be directly verified (though this also requires building from source), and you don't have to just hope that the author was honest.
• patrick_haply 10y ago
  Funnily enough, I vaguely recall that the crack for an older version involved setting a rule where the app would block its own traffic to their own license server. I'm not sure that validating a license counts as data collection, but still pretty funny IMO.