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> One preset that I would love is "maximum privacy while user initiated outbound still works". So my browser would work because I initiated it, but everything O
by waisbrot 9y ago
> One preset that I would love is "maximum privacy while user initiated outbound still works". So my browser would work because I initiated it, but everything OSX or apps do in the background are blocked.
I don't know how you imagine this would work. If I load up a GitHub PR in my browser and then swap to my editor, will the page update when I get a review comment 30 minutes later? If I launch a program and it immediately phones home, is that blocked?
- computator 9y ago> If I launch a program and it immediately phones home, is that blocked? Yes. > I don't know how you imagine this would work. That's why I'd like Little Snitch to figure it out. There will be judgment calls, edge cases, and decisions. If there's anyone capable of doing it, it's the developers of Little Snitch. I don't see a theoretical reason why we can't have "maximum privacy while user initiated outbound still works" -- for some reasonable definition of those words.